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Re: st: Changing part of variable names
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Changing part of variable names
Date
Tue, 24 May 2011 15:16:20 +0200
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the following problem: I have 11 separate Stata-files, each containing a cross-section for one specific year. The variables in each corss-section are the same, except for the names, which carry a year tag in the variable name, so there's e.g. income07 in the cross-section for 2007, and income08 in the one for 2008. Now, I want to transform these 11 files into one panel data set. Therefore, I need to rename the variables in each cross section (several hundreds per cross-section) such that they have the same name, i.e. income07 and income08 need to become incomeXX -otherwise "append" wouldn't work. How do I do this with a loop? Further complication: the year tag can be anywhere in the variable name, things like in07come, income07 or inco07me are possible.
The easiest solution is probably to use Nick Cox's -renvars-. You can
find it by typing in Stata -findit renvars-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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