This is a FAQ. Look for material on precision
in the helps and FAQs.
Your call should be
egen double newvar = ...
or
egen long newvar = ...
If these are integers, -long- is better. Either type
is allowed by the syntax. See the help for -egen- once more.
Nick
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> I'm trying to generate a new variable given by the sum of an
> existing variable
> by year (as I have 2 six month observations for the same
> year) and individual.
> The command is the following:
> egen newvar=sum (oldvar), by(id year)
>
> the problem is that the original values are, for instance:
> 42224464 and
> 67090781, but the sum that STATA computes is 109000000,
> instead of 109315245.
> Why does it round like that?
> The old variable is stored as "double", I have tried to
> change the storage
> type, using recast, but STATA does not allow to do it, as
> many values would be
> changed...
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