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RE: st: RE: Generating numeric ids


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Generating numeric ids
Date   Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:35:10 +0100

<>

Say

*******
egen newid=group(ID)
*******

then. 

HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dmitriy
Krichevskiy
Sent: Montag, 8. März 2010 23:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: Generating numeric ids

Thank you Martin, but unfortunately I get an r(134) error. I am
guessing that there are more than 65,536 unique values as possible
combinations. So I am trying to see if there is another approach.
Thanks again. Dmitriy

2010/3/8, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>
> <>
>
> *******
> clear*
>
> inp str10 ID V1 str10 V2
> AAAAPTNE7		.	   .
> AAAAPTNE7		.	   .
> AAAARCOO7		1    "2002-2003"
> AAACACRI7		2	   "2004-2005"
> AAACAMCP3		1	   "2006-2007"
> AAACARIC9		1    "2002-2003"
> end
>
> encode  ID, gen(numericid)
> l, nolab sepby(ID) noo
>
> *******
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dmitriy
> Krichevskiy
> Sent: Montag, 8. März 2010 23:01
> To: statalist
> Subject: st: Generating numeric ids
>
> Dear Statalisters,
> I have a large panel dataset creators of which decided to encrypt the
> participants IDs via some unknown algorithm to covert them (original
> id numbers) into strings. I am stock trying to figure out how to
> create unique numerical identifiers from these given that the data is
> panel (in the long format). I provide a small example below. As always
> your help is much appreciated.Thanks, Dmitriy
>
>
>     ID                         V 1                          V2
> AAAAPTNE7		.		                 .
> AAAAPTNE7		.		                 .
> AAAARCOO7		1                         2002-2003
> AAACACRI7		2	                   2004-2005
> AAACAMCP3		1	                   2006-2007
> AAACARIC9		1                         2002-2003
>
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