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Re: st: Unique identifier from a string name
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Unique identifier from a string name
Date
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:50:13 +0000
I don't understand in what way your problem needs anything esoteric.
-egen, group()- can be used with numeric variables too, but it is
based on Stata's default sort orders. -encode- by default works
similarly.
Nick
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Barry Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> The context of the problem is to build a panel from yearly data using firm names as the unique id with the -merge- command.
>
> Nick/Daniel:
> I had thought of -encode- and -egen-'s-group()- but my panel is unbalanced and I presume both of these are based on an alphabetical sort order?
>
> Brendan: I think your solutions may prove more useful although am not sure how to turn it into an id to use with -merge-
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