AW: st: on data transformation

[rado645-bg@yahoo.de]

Dear Nick,

thanks a lot! This was very helpful. Indeed, the event variable takes the value 
of 1 at the time of event and zero before that. 


I have just a quick question: how shall I proceed if I need to keep the year 
when the event has occurred and the previous year but drop any other preceding 
years?

KR,
Rado 



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Von: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 20. Juli 2011, 21:49:22 Uhr
Betreff: Re: st: on data transformation

It is not clear what value -event- takes when it is not 1. I will suppose 0.

bysort x year (event) : gen occurred = event[_N]

spreads occurrences to all the weeks in the year in which they occurred.

keep if occurred

then -drops- entire years without events.

Nick

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM,  <rado645-bg@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> I would like to ask for help with data transformation. I have data on objects
> x1, x2,x3  that are observed over time (weeks). I have variables var1 and var2
> for each objects and also variable indicating the year of observation. In
> addition, a variable "event" indicates the time period when an event has
> occurred.
>
>
> The columns of the panel data set look as follows:
>
> x  week      var1  var2 year event
>
> x1 2006w2 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2006w3 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2006w4 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2007w7 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w8 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w9 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w10 var1 var2 2007 1
>
> x2 2008w2 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2008w3 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2008w4 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2009w9 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w8 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w9 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w10 var1 var2 2009 1
>
> I have many variables x that differ in number of weeks and years. I need 
>however
> to keep the year when the event has happened and dropped any previous years.
> Given my data set, is this possible to be done in Stata?
>
>

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