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Re: st: Creating new variables from a STATA panel dataset
From
Anders Alexandersson <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: Creating new variables from a STATA panel dataset
Date
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:09:34 -0400
Yes, the "wild card" character * can be used in Stata to indicate that
"zero or more characters go here" but only for existing variables .
The -forvalues- and -foreach- commands can be used together with
-generate- to quickly create new variables. See the examples in the
help files.
Anders Alexandersson
[email protected]
Lucio Vinhas de Souza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Nick. Now, as I have several hundred variables (as I indicated in my earlier post, which include common country codes), it is not really feasible that I write all of them in a command. I would assume there should be some sort of "wild card" notation that one could use to replace a part of the varname in STATA. If I am correct, which would be this?
Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * cannot be part of a variable name.
>>
>>>Lucio Vinhas de Souza <[email protected]>wrote:
>>> Very basic question, for someone that has not used
>>> STATA for several years now: I have a panel dataset
>>> (adequately tis t and iis id) of several hundred variables,
>>> and I want to:
>>>
>>> a) Generate new variables
>>> b) Run a xtbond from those new variables
>>>
>>> I have been trying to generate new variables which are
>>> change rates form the existing ones. The names of the
>>> existing variables are all variations from the format
>>> “countrycode_extension”. I have been trying to
>>>
>>> gen
>>> “*_extension_new”=((“*_extension”-“*_extension_new”[_n-1])/
>>> “*_extension_new”[_n-1])
>>>
>>> and always get the message
>>>
>>> *invalid name
*
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