st: Creating particular dummy variables

[emanuele mazzini <madsoenistata@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I just encountered a (relatively) difficult problem with respect to
the generation of particular dummies. In particular, I have a
structure like the following:


year	team_A	team_B	FT_A	FT_B	winner	dumwin1	dumwin2	dumwin3	dumwin4	dumwin5	dumwin6	dumwin7	dumwin8	dumwin9
1954	Italy	   Argentina	2	         0	        1	1	0	               0	
  0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
      0            0
1955					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1956					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1957					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1958					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1959					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1960					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1961	Italy	   Argentina	4	1	                1	1	0	               0	
 0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
     0            0
1962					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0
1963					                                1	1	0	               0	
0	             0	             0	             0	            0 	
    0            0


and I would like for the dummies the following structure:

dumwin1=1 in 1954 and 0 otherwise

dumwin2=1 in 1955 and 0 otherwise

and so on until 1961, where the I would like the dummies structure to
be modified as follows:

- on one hand, the dummies should continue to have the same structure
(so in this case only dumwin8 must be =1, while all the others must be
=0)

- on the other had, since a new event occurs, I would like that
dumwin1 is also =1, so as the effects of the 2 events can sum up.

Anyone has a suggestion in order to do that? I guess it is not that
easy, but any suggestion would be appreciated.

I tried with the following loop (after having generated the dumwin1):

forvalues x = 2(1)58 {
gen dumwin`x' = 0
replace dumwin`x' = L.dumwin* if dumwin==`x'
}

but it is not working due to the "ambiguous abbreviation" error wrt
the variable dumwin.

Does anyone of you can tell me if this is the good way to proceed and
how to fix the command, or either if there's another way to make what
I want?

Thank you all in advance,

Regards,

E.M.
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