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From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Multiple labels?
Date   Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:40:40 +0100 (MEZ)

Dear all,
I got a dataset with information about each migrant's inkind remittances to 
his family in the home country (variables mmig recording the item code and 
qmmig the quantity remitted of that item). 
Using -egen, concat- to create summmig the dataset is now  as follows:

 +---------------------------------------------------+
     |       id   idmig               summmig   dummyinkind |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
  1. | 101 1002       .   1 5 7 5 3 7 0 0              . |
  2. | 101 1002       .                                . |
  3. | 101 1002       3                                1 |
  4. | 101 1002       .                                . |
  5. | 101 1002       .                                . |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
  6. | 101 1002       .                                . |
  7. | 101 1002       .                                . |
  8. | 102 1003       .   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0              . |
  9. | 102 1003       .   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0          . |
 10. | 102 1003       3                                0 |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
 11. | 102 1003       .                                . |
 12. | 102 1003       5                                0 |
 13. | 102 1003       .                                . |
 14. | 102 1003       .                                . |
 15. | 102 1004       .   4   0 0 0 0 0 0              . |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
 16. | 102 1004       .   0 0 0 0 0 0                  . |
 17. | 102 1004       3                                1 |
 18. | 102 1004       .                                . |
 19. | 102 1004       5                                0 |
 20. | 102 1004       .                                . |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
 21. | 102 1004       .                                . |
 22. | 102 1004       .                                . |
 23. | 102 1005       1   5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0              1 |
 24. | 102 1005       .                                . |
 25. | 102 1005       .                                . |
     |---------------------------------------------------|
 26. | 102 1005       .                                . |
 27. | 102 1005       .                                . |
 28. | 102 1005       .                                . |
 29. | 102 1005       .                                . |
 30. | 102 1005       .                                . |
     +---------------------------------------------------+
The first row of summmig (item code followed by quantity) tells me that 5 
shoes, 5 bags of maize and 7 dresses have been 
sent by member number 3 (idmig) during his migration. Now I am facing the 
following difficulties:
1) how to affect to the member 3 himself the record that appears in row 1, 
summmig being a string.
2) is it possible to use multiple labels for these outputs (after -destring-
ing summmig) in a way that allows me 
to read directly from screen "5 shoes, 5 bags of maize and 7 dresses " 
rather than the codes "1 5 7 5 3 7"?
3) How can I create the last column (dummyinkind) so that each member who 
migrant gets 1 if variable -summmig- contains
any figure that is different from 0?
Thanks you for any suggestion.
Adama
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