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Re: st: A question


From   Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: A question
Date   Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:52:35 +0000

Generally you should not use foreach to loop over observations. Use -by-  
instead. In your case it is possible to reshape the data to long to do the 
check. Something like this should work:

.. ren person_id id1
.. ren mother_id id2
.. reshape long id, i(index) j(idtyp)
.. sort id idtyp
.. by id: gen control = idtyp[1]==2 if id~= ""

If your data is ok, the variable "control" should be all zero.

uli


Jisheng Cui  wrote

> > Following is a sample data with two columns indicating person's ID and
> mother's ID within a family. I would like to seek the best way to check
> whether each mother's ID is one of the person's IDs. Otherwise something
> wrong with the data. Please note: (1) We do not need to check the blank
> mother's ID.
> (2) There are some duplicate mother's ID in the family. If a mother's ID is
> one of the person's ID, then we skip its duplicates. (3) There are
> thousands of such families. The program has to be efficient in calculation.
> Be ware that -foreach- seems not work with the -by- command.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Jisheng.
>
>
> person_id         mother_id
>
> 042208201006
> 042208201014
> 042208201008
> 042208201099
> 042208201005
> 042208201007
> 042208201097  042208201001
> 042208201098  042208201001
> 042208201001  042208201002
> 042208201094  042208201005
> 042208201093  042208201005
> 042208201002  042208201005
> 042208201095  042208201005
> 042208201096  042208201005
> 042208201003  042208201007
> 042208201009  042208201007
> 042208201010  042208201007
> 042208201011  042208201007
> 042208201013  042208201011
> 042208201012  042208201011

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