Re: Antwort: st: LA-AIDS model: saving parts of a dataset using forvalue

[Christian OTCHIA <sametrie@yahoo.fr>]

Rich,

I am sorry for not being so clear in my post. Actually, I got my mistake
corrected already.
However, I think that nested loop might help me to use the loop efficiently. 
The following code expresses what I wanted to do.
I want to aggregate the "academic hours" by year and number of students.
Variable "students" has value from 2 to 5. Therefore, I want to create 4
other variables which contains "aggregated academic hours" of each number of
students (hour_2, hour_3. hour_4, hour_5). 

I did it by creating many files but I think that my code can be improved
substantially. 

Any improvement or comments will be appreciated.
  
Regards,

Christian


****My code********
cd "c:\data\stata"
use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r11/college.dta 
*aggregate "academic hours" by year and number of students
collapse (sum) hour, by(year number) 
save file1, replace 
*4 other variables which contains "aggregated academic hours" of each number
of students
forvalues i=2/5{
      preserve
      keep if numb==`i'
	  rename hour hour`i'
	  drop number
      save numb_`i' 
      restore
}
* Merging files
use  numb_2, clear
forvalues i=3/5{
merge 1:1 year using numb_`i' 
drop _merge
save file02, replace 
}
preserve
*****End****
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