RE: st: RE: How to construct a duration variable?

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Good point.  Drat.



At 04:05 PM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
> Not so. Each person can have one or more
> spells on each -Brand-. Your code lumps
> them all together.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Nick Winter
>
> > I think
> >
> >    bysort hhid Brand: gen Duration=_N
> >
> > should do it.
> >
> > --Nick Winter
> >
> > At 01:42 PM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
> > >Thank you, Nick.
> > >
> > >For example,  there are three brands in the market: A, B and C.  One
> > >consumer buy A at the first period.  At the second period, she
> > >switches to B.  Since then, she keeps buying B for the next four
> > >periods.  After that, she switches to C etc.
> > >
> > >Then the duration variable I want should be:
> > >
> > >hhid    Period   Brand    Switch  Duration
> > >1         1         A           0           1
> > >1         2         B           1           4
> > >1         3         B           0           4
> > >1         4         B           0           4
> > >1         5         B           0           4
> > >1         6         C           1           2
> > >1         7         C           0           2
> > >1         8         A           1           1
> > >1         9         B           1           4
> > >1        10         B           0           4
> > >1        11         B           0           4
> > >1        12         B           0           4
> > >1        13         C           1           2
> > >1        14         C           0           2
> > >
> > >I wish that it's clear this time.  I just not sure how to construct
> > >the duration variable in Stata.
>
>
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