Dear Statalisters. I'm using Stata 9 and I'm trying to generate a new
variable that will be used as an identification for further merging of
several databases.
The id will be based on the conjunction of 5 variables called: LOTE,
TIPO, FOLIO, VIV, R101.
The larger and the lower values for each of these variables are shown
below:
1400, 3, 17162, 9, 18 and 1, 0, 1, 0, 1
From these values I build a formula, that applied in excel produced
the desired results:
gen id2=LOTE*1000000000+TIPO*100000000+FOLIO*1000+VIV*100+R101*1
in excel the results produced were: 1,400,317,162,918 for the case
with larger values and 1,000,001,001 for the case with lower values.
The thing is that when I applied the formula in Stata the results are
wrong. I thought that the error comes from the number of values shown
in stata, but after changing to format id %14.0f the results are still
wrong.
What I got for the case of minimum values is the following: 1,000,001,024
Does anybody knows what is possibly causing this mistake? Thanks for
your kindly help.
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