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Re: st: How to use "by" or "if" in fill command
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LI Mengjia <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to use "by" or "if" in fill command
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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:14:11 +0800
Many thanks, Nick. Problem solved! Merge successfully finished!
Mengjia
在 2013-4-27，下午11:28，Nick Cox <[email protected]> 写道：
> Some technique in
>
> clear
> set obs 36
> gen year = 2002 + sum(mod(_n - 7, 12) == 0)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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> On 27 April 2013 16:10, LI Mengjia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I want to generate a sequence with certain repeated pattern as part of a match-erge procedure to merge the stocks in fund holding (reported every half year) with stock return data (reported every month) in order to display stock's monthly return in the fund holding file.
>>
>> My current data structure looks like this: (each fund has several stocks, each stock have 36 rows at each Reportyear)
>>
>> fund stock Reportyear year
>> -----------------+------------------------------------------
>> 000011.OF 000001 2005
>> (repeated for 36 rows for each stock code)
>> 000011.OF 000002 2005
>> ...
>> 000021.OF 2005
>> ...
>> 000011.OF 2006
>> ... 2010
>>
>>
>> I want to fill column year in patterns like (first year 2002 repeats 6 times, middle 2 years 2003 & 2004 repeat 12 times and last year 2005 repeat for 6 times):
>> For each stock when Reportyear=2005, year= 2002,2002,2002,2002,2002,2002,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2003,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2004,2005,2005,2005,2005,2005,2005,(in vertical)
>> And when Reportyear increase by 1, year increase by 1.
>>
>> I read the FAQ article "Generating variables that contain repeating sequences of numbers". I think "egen fill" will satisfy part of my need since each value in the repeating sequence is repeating different times. But "by" and "if" is not allowed for egen fill.How should I generate the year pattern for each Reporttime?
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