Another way to do it:
Suppose you want ages 60(5)80, ids 1/100.
set obs 500
egen id = seq(), block(5)
egen age = seq(), from(12) to(16)
replace age = 5 * age
Nick
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MAY BAYDOUN
Thank you so much! I really appreciate this,
Eva Poen
> Here is one way to do it. Note that I start from
> scratch to create the
> ID variable. You can start with -expand-.
>
> *********************
> clear
> set obs 5
> gen id = _n
> expand 5
> sort id
> list
> bysort id: gen age = 55+(_n*5)
> list
> **********************
2008/5/29 MAY BAYDOUN <[email protected]>:
> > I am trying to create a dataset in which I already
> > have the id numbers but I would like to replicate
> them
> > and add another variable age that has exactly the
> same
> > values for all ids. So, the original file is:
> >
> > id
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > 4
> > 5
> >
> > The file I want to create is:
> >
> > id age
> > 1 60
> > 1 65
> > 1 70
> > 1 75
> > 1 80
> > 2 60
> > 2 65
> > 2 70
> > 2 75
> > 2 80
> > ..
> >
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