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RE: st: creation of a new variable using a variable condition
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Riccardo Valboni <[email protected]>
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RE: st: creation of a new variable using a variable condition
Date
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:11:11 +0000
Dear Nick,
Many thanks for your answer!
And what if I would like newvar to be a counting variable that counts the years from the last event(see example)? How would you do that?
id year event newvar
a 2001 0 0
a 2002 0 0
a 2003 1 1
a 2004 1 1
b 2005 0 0
b 2006 1 1
b 2007 0 2
b 2008 0 3
b 2009 0 4
Thank you.
Riccardo
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: venerdì 21 febbraio 2014 16:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: creation of a new variable using a variable condition
One way to approach this is
bysort id (year): gen newvar = sum(event) >= 1
See also
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/first-and-last-occurrences/
Nick
[email protected]
On 21 February 2014 15:04, Riccardo Valboni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist,
>
> I am trying to do something that it's probably basic but I cannot get to the bottom of it.
> I have a typical unbalanced panel dataset. Some of my observations happen to have an event at a certain point in time (coded 1 in the 'event' column). For them I would like to generate a new variable (newvar) that takes value 1 from the year of the first event onwards. The year of the first event obviously changes from case to case. (see the example below)
>
> id year event newvar
> a 2001 0 0
> a 2002 0 0
> a 2003 1 1
> a 2004 1 1
> b 2005 0 0
> b 2006 1 1
> b 2007 0 1
> b 2008 0 1
> b 2009 0 1
> ...
>
> I imagine that the command to do this starts with: by id... but I wouldn't know how continue that. Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you!
> Riccardo
>
>
>
>
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