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Re: st: Re: format
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Chiara Mussida <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: format
Date
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:42:11 +0200
sure, but I need a unique id to be used to merge two files. In this
way i would prob get different new id for the same individual across
the two files
On 30/07/2012, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can just leave the string in your dataset and create a new numeric
> id like this
> bys stringid : gen numid = _n == 1
> replace numid = sum(numid)
>
> -- Maarten
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
>> encode works. The only constraint is that it does not encode string
>> variables that takes more than 65,536 unique values.
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 29/07/2012, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Chiara Mussida wrote:
>>>
>>> i have a string variable of 18 lenght. This is my id and i need it
>>> numerical. I proceeded with destring and i got a numerical variable in
>>> double format. I tried to get it in the format %18.0f, but i realised
>>> that stata does not maintain the original number. It approx each
>>> variable and in this way i cannot get a unique id Per individual. Do
>>> you know whether it is a problem of wrong format?
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> It is not a problem of the wrong format. At the command line type:
>>>
>>> help data_types
>>>
>>> and examine the precision of Stata's numerical data types.
>>>
>>> I'm curious as to why you believe that you must store eighteen-character
>>> IDs
>>> as
>>> numbers. If you need to obtain a numerical ID for use of one of Stata's
>>> -xt-
>>> commands, then you can use -encode-.
>>>
>>> Joseph Coveney
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Chiara Mussida
>> PhD candidate
>> Doctoral school of Economic Policy
>> Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)
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>
>
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Chiara Mussida
PhD candidate
Doctoral school of Economic Policy
Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)
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