Dear Statalisters,
I am making an .ado-file to produce a large number of standardized incidence
rates. The program uses data from the standard population stored in
'standardpop.dta' which has 3468 records. Now, I have to keep this standard
population with the .ado-file as an ancillary file, and I thought it would
be easier if the data from 'standardpop.dta' could be entered automatically
from inside my .ado-file.
I could do it like this:
clear
set obs 3468
input year male age pop
1901 0 0 151800
1901 0 5 133900
...etc., but it's hard work!
Could anybody suggest a more efficient way?
Thank you in advance.
Peter.
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