collapse sum(whatevervariable), by (country year)
not work? (I am assuming you will sum the industries values when collapsing the panel.
>>> [email protected] 05/28/04 04:46pm >>>
Dear Stata users:
I have panel data for several industries in 40 countries for 20 years. For
each year, I am trying to collapse the data by country. I tried to use
foreach and forvalues commands, but could not work it out. I would
appreciate if you can help me.
Thnks,
sarah
>From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: st: RE: retrieving a three-letter word from a string variable
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:04:51 +0100
>
>One way to do this is
>
>gen whatever = "HMV" if index(myvar, "HMV")
>
>If you're fond of -cond()- you might prefer
>
>gen whatever = cond(index(myvar, "HMV"), "HMV", "")
>
>Neither is a retrieval solution, but the
>result is the same.
>
>Another way to do it is through retrieval:
>
>gen whatever = substr(myvar,index(myvar, "HMV"),3)
> if index(myvar, "HMV")
>
>but I can't see any advantage to that.
>
>Nick
>[email protected]
>
>Dev Vencappa
>
> > I have a dataset that contains several string variables.
> > Suppose one string variable contains the following values in
> > one of the observations:
> >
> > CMLST(HMV)
> >
> > Another string variable contains :
> >
> > COMSTL GTRI(HMV)
> >
> > I want stata to create a new variable that retrieves only the
> > three-letter word "HMV" from the string variable. I
> > understand that the substr command does that but because the
> > starting point of the word HMV is not the same for every
> > variable , it would be difficult to identify the correct
> > starting position to read the string and retrieve the first
> > three letters HMV.
> > Can somebody help please? I have tried the other string
> > commands but could not understand one that does what I want.
>
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