Re: st: summing and reshaping the data

["Thomas, Anthony" <anthony_h_thomas@brown.edu>]

Hi Sara,

It sounds like you should look at -collapse- instead of egen. Try
"help collapse"

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Sara Neto Machado
<mail@saramachado.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> company--workers----V1
> 10---------------6---------10
> 10---------------3---------10
> 10---------------1---------10
> 11---------------3----------3
> 15--------------10---------21
> 15--------------11---------21
> 18---------------5----------5
>
> What I pretend to do is to sum up the number of workers for each
> company but without any values repeating, namely, company numbers
> should not repeat. To do the sum I have computed this straigthforward
> comand:
>
> egen V1 = sum (workers), by (company)
>
> the latter generated the column V1 but I do not manage to find a way
> to not repeat the number of company and the V1 numbers that refer to
> the same company. For instance, company 10 continues to have 3
> separated lines saying the same total. How do you manage to this two
> simultaneous things? What is the most efficient way to not repeat
> number of company and the correspondent lines in the V1 column?
>
> thanks in advance for whom responds to this inquiry
> Regards,
> Sara
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