Dear Statalisters,
I need to aggregate the number of observations in my data set when they have
identical values on two variables AND I need to sum up the values of a third
variable so that it remains the same for the reduced data set. I will try to
illustrate this and also describe the substantial problem:
my initial data matrix looks like this:
act wgt pref1 pref2
1 4 100 0
2 5 33 0
3 3 33 50
4 3 100 50
5 10 33 0
6 10 33 100
7 5 33 50
8 3 33 50
9 10 33 50
10 2 33 50
11 5 33 0
12 5 33 50
13 8 33 50
14 4 100 0
15 10 33 50
16 100 70
17 100 70
sum 87
The first variable is the number of my actors (the 15 EU member states plus
the European Commission and the European Parliament). The second variable is
the voting weights of the member states. The third and fourth variables are
preferences of the actors in two dimensions. Many of the actors have
identical preference profiles that I need to aggregate.
The result of this aggregation should look like this:
act wgt pref1 pref2
1 8 100 0
2 20 33 0
3 46 33 50
4 3 100 50
5 10 33 100
6 100 70
sum 87
How can I do this in Stata (7)?
Thank you!
Regards,
Dietrich.
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