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Re: st: RE: speeding up program


From   Patricia Sourdin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: speeding up program
Date   Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:50:00 +0930

Wow, thanks Scott, that did it!!  I love Stata!

Quoting Scott Merryman <[email protected]>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Patricia Sourdin
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:27 PM
> > To: '[email protected]'
> > Subject: st: speeding up program
> > 
> <snip> 
> > 
> > In other words, I have monthly salary data on each individual (memid) in
> > each
> > household(hhid). My data set has about 60,000 observations.
> > I have written the following command to sum salary across month for each
> > individual
> > 
> > by hhid memid,sort: egen quart_inc=sum(salary)
> > 
> > which works fine except then I have to get rid of all the duplicate totals
> > created for each individual.  
> <snip>
> 
> Patricia,
> 
> How about -collapse (sum) salary, by(hhid memid)-
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
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