Re: st: If variable x contains variable y

[<john.guzek@lshtm.ac.uk>]

Hi again,

Sorry, I forget that email can't handle tab!

Thanks for your help. It's a bit more tricky than that, at least as far
as I can tell. I'll try and explain a little more clearly! So, as below,
I have household level and individual level identifiers. I essentially
want to flag the mother's idno. So something along the lines of gen x=1
if idno=="any value in mother_id" to look like column x below. Whether
column x read 1 or the corresponding idno is not important at this
stage. And I agree, these probably should be stored as string, it's not
my data!


idhouse  |idno     |mother_id |x
1           |73664  |.               |1
1           |73665  |.               |.
1           |73666  |.               |.
1           |73667  |73664       |.
1           |73668  |.               |.
2           |94038  |.               |.
2           |94039  |.               |1
2           |94040  |.               |.
2           |94041  |.               |1
2           |94042  |.               |.
2           |94043  |.               |1
2           |94044  |94041       |.
2           |94045  |94039       |.
2           |94046  |.               |1
2           |94047  |94046       |.
2           |94048  |94046       |.
2           |94049  |.               |.
2           |94050  |.               |.
2           |94051  |94043       |.
2           |94052  |.               |.



Thanks for your help!
John 

>>> Christoph Engel  15/07/12 4:21 PM >>>
John,

You will have to define the value of x if y does not fulfil your 
condition, i.e. if it is not equal to z. Depending on your purposes you 
might either want it to be a missing value, or some expression of x, say

0. I would therefore start out

gen x = .
replace x = y if y == z

(note the "==" in the if clause)

Best

Christoph Engel

Am 7/15/2012 4:59 PM, schrieb Steve Nakoneshny:
> John,
>
> At first glance, it would seem that -gen x = y if y = z- would serve
as a solution. Of course, this assumes that your I'd vars are numerical
and not string vars (which they probably should be stored as).
>
> Steve
>
> Sent via carrier pigeon
>
> On 2012-07-15, at 8:52 AM, "john.guzek@lshtm.ac.uk"  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> This is my first time using statalist, I hope I do this all
correctly!
>>
>>
>> I'm looking to create a variable x which is equal to y, but only if
the given value for y can be found in another variable, z. These are all
id numbers, so say y is a universal id and z is a mother's id, telling
you the universal id of the mother in relation to the child.
>>
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>
>> yzx
>>
>>
>> 1..
>> 2.2
>> 3.3
>> 42.
>> 5..
>> 6..
>> 737
>> 8..
>> 9..
>> 107.
>>
>>
>> So I'm trying to figure out how to create x. Any help would be much
appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>
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