Joel Clovis
>
> I am (some may already know) trying to take a panel dataset
> and drop
> variables (by Country) that don't have enough observations
> (at least 35
> say). I have the following dofile that asks me for another
> brace and I don't
> know why. I've used 3 opening and 3 closing.
> >{ required
> >r(100);
>
>
> Q1. Will this dofile achieve my goal?
> Q2. Why do I need another brace? and if so where?
>
> I'm a Stata 7 user. Can anyone help?
>
> Joel
>
> Dofile:
>
> foreach Country in Argentina Bangladesh Botswana
> Brazil Kenya �Korea, Rep.� Malaysia Indonesia
> Ghana �Taiwan, China� Tanzania Zambia {
> drop if Country~=`Country'
> sort Year
> foreach v of var cba2tfina-region{
> qui count if !missing(`v')
> if r(N)<35{
> drop `v'
> }
> }
> outsheet using
> "P:\IDPM\DBASES\WBFinStruct\tst1\Splus`Country'X" ,
> comma replace
> keep RGDPCap
> outsheet using
> "P:\IDPM\DBASES\WBFinStruct\tst1\Splus`Country'Y" ,
> comma replace
> use
> "P:\IDPM\DBASES\WBFinStruct\tst1\FinStructSoc.dta",
> clear
> }
I have an over-arching comment that
your overall approach of splitting your
data set into lots of little data sets
is not, in my experience, a good strategy.
Rather, keep them in one set and exploit
the Stata structures which allow analysis subset
by subset. There are plenty of them.
Having said that, I suspect there is a bug
here on the line
drop if Country~=`Country'
which probably should be
drop if Country~="`Country'"
but that wouldn't seem to be the problem
Stata is complaining about.
Linewraps interposed somewhere between
origin and destination may be obscuring
some issue.
Nick
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