Re: st: Foreach loops for each variable.

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

-separate- is dedicated to your immediate problem.

Nick

On 22 Nov 2012, at 19:42, natasha agarwal <agarwana2@googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello Stata users,
>
> I have a understanding failure here in how the foreach loop is
> working. I have a dataset with 40 countries spanning from 1980-2004.
>
> Now for each country I have to create a variable which is going to
> look like follows:
>
> gen agri_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Agriculture, Hunting and Forestry" &  
> year==1980
> gen mini_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Mining and Quarrying" & year==1980
> gen basic_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal"  
> & year==1980
> gen construction_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Construction" & year==1980
> gen electrical_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Electrical and Optical
> Equipment" & year==1980
> gen electricity_1980= Dst1980 if pa=="Electricity, Gas and Water
> Supply" & year==1980
> gen financial_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Financial Intermediation" &  
> year==1980
> gen food_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Food, Beverages and Tobacco" &  
> year==1980
> gen hotels_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Hotels and Restaurant" & year==1980
> gen mach_1980 = Dst1980 if pa=="Machinery, nec" & year==1980
>
> Basically here I am just creating variables that takes the values of
> Dst for a particular industry in 1980. I have to do the same for all
> the years and then over 40 countries. I tried doing it following
> Nick's advice on how to use foreach for each values in the variable,
> but failed.
>
> Is there anybody that could help me with the same, I would be  
> grateful.
>
> Thanks,
> Natasha
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