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Re: st: Recoding with values of the next spell
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Recoding with values of the next spell
Date
Wed, 29 May 2013 16:31:38 -0400
there are built-in commands that will give you this (e.g., -codebook-)
and there are user-written commands also; use -findit- to find either or
both of -unique-, -distinct-
Rich
On 5/29/13 4:18 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
> Many thanks. How about if I want to count the total number of persons instead of spells? In this case, the total number of persons is 3 as deduced from the id.
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Subject: Re: st: Recoding with values of the next spell
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 22:17:43 +0200
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> gen Yimp = Y
>> sort ID Start
>> by ID: replace Yimp = Yimp[_n+1] if Yimp==. & Yimp[_n+1]!=.
>>
>> Federico
>>
>> Il giorno 26/mag/2013, alle ore 21:37, Kai Huang <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have a spell dataset with some missing values of variables as follows:
>>>
>>> ID Start End Y
>>> 766 1987 1988 1
>>> 766 1988 1990 .
>>> 766 1990 1994 0
>>> 768 1988 1991 1
>>> 768 1991 1993 0
>>> 769 1987 1994 .
>>> 769 1994 1995 1
>>>
>>> If the missing values can be recoded with values of those of the next chronological spell, are there any commands in STATA which can support doing such task? Thank you very much in advance.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Kai Huang
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