Re: st: merging same variables within a dataset

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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I'd use -reshape- + -collapse-, not -merge-.
You'll need to get carryforward for this example (-findit carryforward-):
**************!
clear
inp str12(Name Position) Salary Bonus ///
Compensation str10(Company)
John  Manager    10  10 20 a
Jack  Manager    20  20 30 a
Brian  Director   10  10 40  c
Amy  Manager    20  20 30   d
John  Director    10  10 20  a
Amy  Director    20  30 20   d
Amy  Other 	10	12	30 f
end


**Position and Companies in one String:
g i = _n
bys Name: g j = _n
qui su j
loc max `r(max)'
reshape wide Position Company, i(i) j(j)

foreach p in Position Company {
forval n = 1/`max' {
gsort Name -`p'`n'
by Name: carryforward `p'`n', replace
}
**
egen `p'_all = concat(`p'*) , punct(" ")
replace `p'_all = trim(`p'_all)
drop `p'?
}


**keep totals by Name:
collapse (sum) Salary Bonus Compensation  ///
	(first) Position_all Company_all, by(Name)
**************!
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu

On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Dmitriy Glumov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have just started using Stata and have ran into a problem. I would
> like Stata to identify observations within a dataset that have the
> same name, and add their respective values. To give an example, the
> sample of the dataset looks something like this:
> 
> Name Position Salary Bonus Compensation Company
> John  Manager    10       10         20                   a
> Jack  Manager    20       20         30                   a
> Brian  Director    10       10         40                   c
> Amy  Manager    20       20         30                   d
> John  Director     10       10         20                   a
> Amy  Director     20       30         20                   d
> 
> 
> And I want it to end up looking like this:
> 
> Name   Position              Salary Bonus Compensation Company
> 
> John  Manager/Director       20       20         40                   a
> Jack  Manager                   20       20         30                   a
> Brian  Director                   10       10         40                    c
> Amy  Manager/Director      40       50         50                    d
> 
> In short, I would like Stata to identify same names and then add
> salary, bonus, and compensation together, while also keeping the
> company name and position. It is best if the company displays only one
> label during the merge ("a" instead of "aa" or "a-a", etc) but, as far
> as position, either merging or appending or just displaying either
> name would be fine (so ManagerDirector or just one of the names would
> also work), I just don't want it to create an error during the
> transformation process.
> 
> Thank you for your consideration and any help with this would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Dmitri
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