st: Stata equivalent of SAS code

[tunmise jones <tunmisejones@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

 I am new to Stata and currently working with a large panel dataset of
firms over a period of 9 years. I want to analyse the data based on
the nationality of ownership. There are two ownership variables;
location (1 = domestic, 2= foreign) and location other (1= foreign, 2
=domestic). Different codes were used at different times over the
survey period to represent domestic ownership which creates some
inconsistencies.  Prior to a certain point in time in the data, the
"location" variable does not really work, "location_ other" is the
main ownership variable.  However, many companies enter 2 in the
location variable indicating foreign ownership but leave the
location_other variable blank making it hard to determine nationality
since the location variable is not very reliable in all the years.

I need a Stata equivalent of the the SAS code given below:

if location = '2' or upcase(loc_other)
                        not in ('','0','00','NG','NI') then owner =
'FO';
                else owner = 'DO';


In the SAS code above "upcase(loc_oth)" makes character values upper
case. The code is designed in such a way that every company is
assigned a value of "owner", minimising the number of cases lost, i.e.
if a firm has entered 2 under "location", or has a value entered under
 "location_other" and is not empty or has the various codes used to
denote domestic ownership, then it is foreign, otherwise it is
domestic. Where a company has not entered anything, then zero is
introduced automatically  and the above code forces such a company to
become domestic.

I have no idea how to replicate this in Stata, can anyone please help?


Best Regards,


Tunmise

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