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Re: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar year
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Matthew Krauchunas <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar year
Date
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:48:32 -0400
Ok, answered my first problem by running the command:
if (oshpd_fac_no== oshpd_fac_no[_n-1]|
oshpd_fac_no==oshpd_fac_no[_n+1]) & (year==year[_n-1]|year==year
[_n+1])
Any ideas for the second problem?
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Matthew Krauchunas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you everyone for responding, but now I have a new wrinkle. Some
> of the nursing homes changed ownership and that is the reason some of
> them have multiple financial reports in a given year. I do not want
> to drop these observations as I need them later, but I want to exclude
> them from my collapse commands.
>
> I have used the following code suggested and I have found out the following:
>
> (1)
> sort oshpd_fac_no year,stable
> br oshpd_fac_no year facility_name if (oshpd_fac_no==
> oshpd_fac_no[_n-1]| oshpd_fac_no==oshpd_fac_no[_n+1]) &
> (year==year[_n-1]|year==year [_n+1])
>
> - This returns 460 observations, but not all of them are for nursing
> homes that have more than one financial period in a calendar year
> (i.e., some facilities with only one financial report are included in
> the list).
>
> (2)
> I manually cut and pasted one nursing home's two financial reports (in
> a single calendar year) into another opened version of Stata. I then
> ran the following command:
> collapse (rawsum) snf_medcare_days - total_op_rev (mean)
> lic_bed_month_avg [aweight= days_in_rep_period] , by( oshpd_fac_no
> year)
>
> - I have checked the results and it has worked correctly.
>
> My problem now is how do I "keep" only the observations where the
> names match and there are more than one financial report per calendar
> year? Second, how do I get the collapse results back into the master
> data (i.e., how do I replace the 2 financial reports with my new
> "collapse" results?)
>
> Thank you,
> Matt
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> <>
>>
>> The point that Stata likes data to be in long form remains valid, though,
>> and -tsset-ing when really you have panel data wastes a lot of useful
>> information unnecessarily. So the fact that -reshape-ing is technically
>> possible does not mean that Matthew is better off with the resulting
>> dataset...
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Abhimanyu Arora
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 15:23
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar
>> year
>>
>> Thanks to Martin Weiss, here is a simplified solution for you
>>
>>
>> *************
>> clear
>> input var1 var2
>> 1 5
>> 1 3
>> 2 6
>> 2 4
>> end
>>
>> bys var1:gen var3=_n
>> reshape wide var2, i(var1) j(var3)
>>
>> list, noo
>> *************
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> <>
>>>
>>> BTW, if you are enamoured of -tsset-, use its second syntax
>>>
>>> "tsset panelvar timevar [, options]"
>>>
>>> which is equivalent to -xtset-ting.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Martin Weiss
>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 14:39
>>> An: [email protected]
>>> Betreff: AW: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar
>>> year
>>>
>>>
>>> <>
>>>
>>> Not a problem. Leave the data as "long", and -xtset- "generic":
>>>
>>>
>>> *************
>>> clear*
>>> set obs 230
>>> gen int nurshome=_n
>>> expand 2
>>> bys nurshome: gen byte observation=_n
>>> xtset nurshome observation, generic
>>> xtdes
>>> *************
>>>
>>> Or if the reports are issued half-yearly, change the option to -xtset-
>>> appropriately, to -halfyearly-.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Matthew
>>> Krauchunas
>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 14:30
>>> An: [email protected]
>>> Betreff: Re: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar
>>> year
>>>
>>> It is indeed panel data, but it will not let me xtset the data by year
>>> because I have 230 nursing homes that have 2 financial reports in a
>>> given calendar year. Thus, my challenge is to combine these financial
>>> reports into 1 observation which is the crux of my problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <>
>>>>
>>>> This sounds like a textbook description of panel data to me, which you
>>>> should -xtset-.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: [email protected]
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Matthew
>>>> Krauchunas
>>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 14:10
>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>> Betreff: Re: st: AW: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar
>>>> year
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your quick reply. No, I need it to stay in long format.
>>>> I have about 200 nursing homes that have more than one financial
>>>> report for a given calendar year. These are all in the same file. I
>>>> need to combine these into one
>>>> observation or I cannot tsset the data.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <>
>>>>>
>>>>> Look at
>>>>>
>>>>> *************
>>>>> help reshape_example
>>>>> *************
>>>>>
>>>>> to see the two formats available to you. Stata likes long format better,
>>>> but
>>>>> it also depends on what you want to do with the data down the road.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where do these observations reside? If in different files, you could
>>>>> -merge-.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>> Von: [email protected]
>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Matthew
>>>>> Krauchunas
>>>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 13:40
>>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>>> Betreff: st: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar year
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am working with California nursing home data and I have a number of
>>>>> nursing homes that have numerous financial reports in the same
>>>>> calendar year that I need to combine. For instance, nursing home ABC
>>>>> has one financial report covering period Jan 1, 2004 - Mar 31, 2004
>>>>> and another Apr 1, 2004 - Dec 31, 2004. Is there a way in Stata to
>>>>> combine these two "observations" into a single observation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Matt
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