Dear Stata-listers,
I am sorry to bother you with, but I have checked the FAQ contents and have spent a few hours now trying to understand what STATA is doing with the following:
basically I have an identification variable "snid" that should be made-up of 9 digits, arranged as follows
digit 1 = Oblast no. (1 to 8)
digits 2-3=rayon no. (01 to 09)
digits 4-5=population point (01 to 55)
digits 6-7=segment no. (01 to 18)
digits 8-9=household number (01 to 20)
Instead for some of the files I have, "snid" coming out with 8 digits as a result of bad coding ( rayon number above should have been stored as 01 to 09 but instead was entered as 1 to 9). What I thought I could do was the following
. destring id, gen(snid) float
. format snid %9.0f
. gen hhid=100000000 + (snid-10000000)
. format hhid %9.0f
. list snid hhid
snid hhid
1. 11010101 101010104
2. 11010102 101010104
3. 11010103 101010104
4. 11010104 101010104
...
24. 11010401 101010400
25. 11010402 101010400
26. 11010403 101010400
27. 11010404 101010400
28. 11010405 101010408
29. 11010406 101010408
I can see that "zero" has been added, I can't understand why is STATA changing the last two digits of the newly created variable "hhid" .
Many thanks for your help in advance.
Amani
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