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Re: st: RE: creating individuals ID numbers
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Re: st: RE: creating individuals ID numbers
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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0500 (CDT)
Thanks Nick, I will look at that.
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>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:21:21 +0100
>From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
>Subject: st: RE: creating individuals ID numbers
>To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
>
>This is an FAQ. Start with
>
>FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating group identifiers
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and W. Gould
> 3/01 How do I create individual identifiers numbered
> from 1 upwards?
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/group.html
>
>and feel free to return with unanswered specific questions. The advice in that FAQ
can certainly be combined with prior random shuffling. On this post alone, I would
advise that rather than a deterministic rule.
>
>Nick
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>
>I have a new database where I have confidential information about individuals,
including
>their names, address and ID numbers that can not become public.
>
>I need to create new ID numbers so that the database can become public. I thought
>about doing in some different ways, like to create a new rule for a number based on
the
>old ID number, or to create random numbers.
>
>But I would like to ask your opinion about the best way to do it.
>
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