Mindy Nitkin wrote:
> I am using a database that gives information about the characteristics
> of individual directors on boards of directors. (ie experience, age,
> gender, etc).
> I would like to create a firm level metric of board characteristics by
> combining the data for individual directors. For example, total number
> of directors by firm, total number of independent directors by firm,
> total number of women directors by firm.
I can't see how your data is arrayed, but what I think you're looking for
is something like this:
. egen totdirs = total(directors), by(firm)
from which you can take it from there. Note also the -egen, group()-
option if you want to summarize values by firm _plus_ something else.
See -whelp egen- for more. For an additional arsenal of -egen- functions,
look at Nick Cox's -egenmore-, downloadable from SSC.
Hope that helps.
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