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Re: st: Dropping/Keeping observations-25 April
Dear Marten and Michael,
Thank you for your suggestions. I tried both of your methods, one of them
worked whereas the other did not.
I tried Michael�s approach and typed
bysort fid: drop if _N==1
*113 farmers remained in the dataset and 49 plots with only one farmer id
were dropped.
I decided to try Maarten�s method but admit that I don�t understand
completely what I am doing. So I followed the instructions exactly
(pseudopanel is the name of my dataset)
. sysuse pseudopanel, clear
. drop if stype==2
(164 observations deleted) ( I need to do for another reason, needed to
eliminate plots on which another crop was being grown. So now I am down to
the crop if interest and have data on plots where some farmer�s id appear
only once and I need to get rid ot)
. replace fid = 10 in 10 /*create a unique value in fid*/
(1 real change made)
Gauri: what does this mean ?
. sort fid
. list fid in 1/10
+-----+
| fid |
|-----|
1. | 1 |
2. | 2 |
3. | 2 |
4. | 3 |
5. | 3 |
|-----|
6. | 3 |
7. | 4 |
8. | 4 |
9. | 5 |
10. | 6 |
+-----+
. by fid: keep if _n==_N & _N>1 & fid <.
(110 observations deleted)
Gauri: only 49 plots had one fid (farmerid) associated with it. So this has
dropped more�
. list fid
+-----+
| fid |
|-----|
1. | 2 |
2. | 3 |
3. | 4 |
4. | 7 |
5. | 8 |
|-----|
6. | 9 |
7. | 10 |
8. | 14 |
9. | 15 |
10. | 17 |
|-----|
11. | 18 |
12. | 20 |
13. | 22 |
14. | 24 |
15. | 26 |
|-----|
16. | 28 |
17. | 29 |
18. | 37 |
19. | 38 |
20. | 39 |
|-----|
21. | 40 |
22. | 42 |
23. | 44 |
24. | 45 |
25. | 56 |
|-----|
26. | 57 |
27. | 58 |
28. | 59 |
29. | 60 |
30. | 61 |
|-----|
31. | 62 |
32. | 65 |
33. | 66 |
34. | 67 |
35. | 71 |
|-----|
36. | 72 |
37. | 73 |
38. | 74 |
39. | 75 |
40. | 77 |
|-----|
41. | 79 |
42. | 81 |
43. | 82 |
44. | 83 |
45. | 84 |
|-----|
46. | 86 |
47. | 87 |
48. | 94 |
49. | 96 |
50. | 97 |
|-----|
51. | 100 |
52. | 104 |
+-----+
. end
Thank you for your attention.
Gauri
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From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Dropping/Keeping observations
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:50:59 +0100 (BST)
I was not exactly sure about what Gauri wanted to do with these
observations sso I thought to give
her multiple options to choose from.
--- Michael Blasnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> This approach will also drop the multiple observations for all of the
other
> farmerIDs. Why not just:
>
> bysort farmerID: drop if _N==1
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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