Re: st: RE: Creating a new numerical variable without mathematical operations

["Ramani Gunatilaka" <ramani.gunatilaka@gmail.com>]

Thanks for this. But on closer examination I realise that I can't
relate the two data sets at all. The coding is quite different. I am
very sorry for your trouble.
Ramani

On 21/10/06, Steven Stillman <steven@thestillmans.org> wrote:
> gen newvar = province*10000 + city.
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> Gunatilaka
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> Subject: st: Creating a new numerical variable without mathematical
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> Dear all,
> I have two numerical variables, province and city: province has two
> digits, city has at least 4.
> eg. province= 11, city=  6227
> I want to create a new numerical variable called 'newcity' which will
> combine province and city like this:
> 116227
> This is because I have to combine this data set with another, and the
> unique identifying variable in the second data set has been
> constructed in this way.
> Can someone please tell me what command I may use?
> Thanks so much,
> Ramani
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