Scott,
Yes there is! A user written command called -unique-. Just type findit
unique and install.
Description
The command unique without a by reports the number of unique values for
the varlist. With a by it does the same, but also creates a new
variable (_Unique by default but can be named in the gen option). This new
variable contains the number of unique values of the varlist for each level
of the by variable. The new variable is coded missing except for the first
record in each group defined by the levels of the by variable.
On 9/30/05, Eric G. Wruck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Scott:
>
> Here is a way to do it:
>
> . egen unique = tag(id)
>
> . egen no_unique = total(unique)
>
> . l
>
> +-------------------------------+
> | year id unique no_uni~e |
> |-------------------------------|
> 1. | 1995 3 1 2 |
> 2. | 1996 2 1 2 |
> 3. | 1997 3 0 2 |
> 4. | 1998 3 0 2 |
> +-------------------------------+
>
> .
>
> Of course, you may want to do this by(student).
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> >Dear Statalist,
> >
> >I was wondering if there is s a simple way to count the number of
> >unique values in a variable list for each observation. For example, i
> >am looking at the id numbers for colleges that a set of student attends.
> > A student may list having attended a college in multiple years like
> >this:
> >
> >year id
> >
> >1995 3
> >1996 2
> >1997 3
> >1998 3
> >
> >I want to know how many unique schools the student attended (in this
> >example the answer is 2). Thanks for your help.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Scott Imberman
> >
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