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RE: st: RE: -finddup- for panel?


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: -finddup- for panel?
Date   Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:49:43 +0100

Elsewhere Fred Wolfe and Joe J. discussed how 
to use Fred's -finddup- command to look 
for duplicates. 

An alternative is official Stata's -duplicates- 
command. 

A typical sequence might run 

. duplicates report id year 

to see whether there are duplicates w.r.t. -id year-; 

. duplicates examples id year 

or 

. duplicates list id year 

to see what they are; and  

. duplicates examples id year y 

to see whether there are also ties on -y- for those
duplicates; and so forth. 

As in the case of -finddup-, and of other duplicates
commands I can think of, multiple variables may 
be specified to -duplicates-. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

joe J.
> 
> Here is what I meant.
> 
> Panel variable: id, time variable: year
> 
> There is a variable y which has missing values and I want to 
> use -cipolate- 
> --the stata-code available at SSC--to interpolate the missing 
> values. I do 
> the interpolation the following way.
> 
> tsset id year, yearly
> by id : cipolate y   year, gen(yci)
> 
> It does not run because id has some duplicates, which resulted due to 
> data-entry errors. Therefore I want to remove duplicates for 
> each year and 
> do -cipolate- (the cubic interpolation code at ssc) on the 
> resulting data 
> set with unique ids.
> 
> I remove duplicates the following way for each year.
> 
> use "C:\data75.dta", clear
> finddup id if year==1975, nol k/*finddup is also downloadable 
> from ssc*/
> save "C:\data75a.dta", replace
> 
> drop if dupval>=2/*removing duplicates*/
> save "C:\data75b.dta", replace/*data with unique ids*/
> 
> by id : cipolate y   year, gen(yci)/*cubic interpolation*/
> save "C:\data75c.dta", replace
> 
> 
> use "C:\data75a.dta", clear
> keep if dupval>=2/*collecting duplicates*/
> save "C:\data75d.dta", replace
> 
> I repeat the above steps for other years and at the end append the 
> interpolated and duplicate files for each year.
> 
> use "C:\data75c.dta", clear
> append using "C:\data75d.dta"
> append using "C:\data76c.dta"
> append using "C:\data76d.dta"
> etc.
> My question is , is there any way of detecting duplicate ids 
> for all years 
> simaltaneosly instead of doing it for each year sepearately. 
> (I wish I could 
> do it the following way
> by year: finddup id , nol k).

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