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Is this what you want?
input year area
2000 1
2000 1
2000 2
2000 2
2001 1
2001 2
2001 3
2001 3
2001 3
2001 4
2002 2
2002 2
2002 4
2003 3
2003 3
2003 6
2003 6
end
gsort year -area, gen(order)
list
d, short
by order:gen num=_n
list
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WA Centre for Health & Ageing (M573)
University of Western Australia
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Subject: st: Is there a command similar to "bys" if I want to gsort the
variables?
Dear statalists,
Is there a command similar to "bys" if I want to gsort the variables?
For example,
bys year (area): g num=_n
However, I want to gsort the variable of area.
I have tried as followings,
gsort year -area
by year: g num=_n
Is there an easier way to do it just like -bys-?
By the way, when I typed "d,short" after I typed "gsort year -area", the
result was as followings,
Contains data from study.dta
obs: 155
vars: 6 5 Jun 2009 01:45
size: 3,875 (99.9% of memory free)
Sorted by: year
Why the sorted variable did not contain area?
Thank you for any help!
Best regards,
Rose
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