Re: st: Some basic help on programming

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You are doing a lot of renaming. -renvars- (Stata Journal) is one
convenience tool that might help given your use of Stata 10. (-rename-
in 12 is much more flexible.)

Nick

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Prakash Singh <prakashbhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maarten
> I am sorry but its not like that.
> For example in one lavel there is this item var in which we have ten
> catagory (309-3019). Each of these item is for some head of
> expenditute or receipt or sources of asset or sales etc.
>
> Let try again with the example of do file and sorry if I am not making
> myself clear.
>
> use "level3_list.dta", clear
> keep if item_code==309
> ren item_code item_code_manu
> ren asicc_code asicc_code_manu
> ren unit_quantity unit_quantity_manu
> ren quantity quantity_manu
> ren value value_manu
> sort common_id
> save "item309.dta",replace
>
> use "level3_list.dta", clear
> keep if item_code==319
> ren item_code item_code_trade
> ren asicc_code asicc_code_trade
> ren unit_quantity unit_quantity_trade
> ren quantity quantity_trade
> ren value value_trade
> sort common_id
> save "item319.dta",replace
>
> here item (309-319) are operating expences under different heads like
> manufacturing, transport, energy repair etc of the firm. So what I
> need to do is break the data item wise to get value of operating
> expences for different head and then merge the item wise data to get
> vale of total operating expences of the firm.
>
> Prakash
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