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Stata does not randomly select in your example, but keeps exactly the first
observation for every "newID" if you specify -_n==1-.
You may want to look at -reshape- for a solution...
HTH
Martin
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An: statalist
Betreff: st: one row for each individual
Dear All,
i'm trying to get 1 row for each individual in my dataset.
The actual situation of my data: I have 3 rows for each, and
the indivv are identifiesd with the variable newID. Anyway, by
employing the command: bysort newID: keep if _n==1, I get 1 row for
each, but stata randomly select 1 row for every individual in this way
causing the loss of relevant info. each indiv has been interv in 3
waves (2004,2005, 2006), for each wave I gen the corresponding
categorical variables, which are the lase 36 colums of the dataset. I
would be pleased, given that these represent the labour market story
of each subject, to get all this info in 1 row.
Does anybody know the precise command to get this result?
Thanks a lot
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Chiara Mussida
PhD candidate
Doctoral school of Economic Policy
Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)
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