Your problem isn't clear, but I would guess that
this solution is (a) incorrect and (b) unnecessary.
See
FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if command vs. if qualifier
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Wernow
6/00 I have an if command in my program that only seems
to evaluate the first observation, what's going on?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/ifqualifier.html
Almost certainly you want
<command> if ((husbage1>husbage2) | (husbage11 <husbage2))
Nick
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emre ekinci
> I have 100 observations.
>
> I want to execute some commands for each observation.here is
> the basic
> structure:
>
> local i=0
>
> while `i'<=100 {
> local ++i
>
> if ((husbage1>husbage2) | (husbage11 <husbage2)) {
>
> stata commands
> }
>
> else {
> stata commands
> }
>
> }
>
> if the logical statment is true for the first observation, it
> executes all
> commands within the if statement for other observations as
> well, although
> the logical statement is false for some observations.
> what is my mistake here? How can I write a loop that executes
> some bunch of
> commands (including if else statement)?
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