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Re:st: reorganizing data
Going back to your suggestion,
If the number of observations is large and the information does not fit into
a string variable,
is there any way I can still store the obtained information?
For example, since for person 1, the list is: 2, 5 4 and 8,
Others would contain a string with "2 5 4 8". That is fine. The problem is
that if the list has many numbers they won't fit into the variable "Others".
Can I store the different numbers (2,5, 4 and 8) in different
columns/variables (instead of creating the variable Others)? This is the
only way I can think of dealing with a large number of observations but I'm
not sure how to operationalize it... Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help,
Anna
From: n j cox <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re:st: reorganizing data
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:25:01 +0100
This should work with toy datasets. If your identifiers are
long, or your number of observations is large, the information
won't fit into a string variable, so the lines mentioning
"Others" should be deleted.
gen Others = ""
levelsof Person, local(Persons)
qui foreach P of local Persons {
levelsof City if Person == "`P'", local(Cities)
local which
foreach C of local Cities {
levels Person if Person != "`P'" & City == "`C'", /// local(work)
clean
local which : list which | work
}
noi di "`P': `which'"
replace Others = "`which'" if Person == "`P'"
}
Nick
[email protected]
Anna Lehman
I have a dataset with the following structure:
City Person_id
A 1
A 2
B 1
B 5
C 1
C 5
C 4
D 8
D 1
I would like to obtain the following:
for each and every person, a list with the people that have apartments in
the same city (independently of which city). For example, for person 1,
this
list would be: 2, 5 4 and 8. And for person 5 the list would be: 1 .
Can you think of a relatively easy way of acomplishing this?
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