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Re: st: RE: Quick Question on how to drop individualobservations


From   JEFFREY ROSEN <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Quick Question on how to drop individualobservations
Date   Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:44:23 -0400

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, the code didn't work as I had hoped.

The dataset is drawn up as:

obs 1 hhold 1 rd 1
obs 2 hhold 1 rd 2
obs 3 hhold 1 rd 2
obs 4 hhold 1 rd 3

The code below will drop the observation where the hhold value and the rd value are the same. So in the above example, hhold = rd = 1 at observation 1. Observation 1 was dropped. What I would like is to drop observation 2 because in observation 2, the identifiers are the same as observation 3.

Thanks for your help,

Jeff Rosen


----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:01 pm
Subject: st: RE: Quick Question on how to drop individual observations

> I assume that this reads  
> 
> hhold 1  rd 1
> hhold 1  rd 2
> hhold 1  rd 2
> hhold 1  rd 3
> 
> so that this example includes 4 observations. 
> 
> It sounds as if you want 
> 
> gen long obsno = _n 
> 
> gen byte different = hhold != rd 
> bysort hhid (different obsno) : drop if _n == 1 & !different 
> 
> sort obsno 
> 
> -different- is 0 if -hhold- is equal to -rd- and 1 otherwise. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> JEFFREY ROSEN
> 
> > I have a very basic question. The panel set that I am using 
> > is identified by hhold and rd. A few of the observations 
> > contains the same hhold and rd. For example:
> > 
> > hhold 1
> > rd 1
> > hhold 1
> > rd 2
> > hhold 1
> > rd 2
> > hhold 1
> > rd 3
> > 
> > I would like to drop the first observation where the hhold 
> > and rd are identical. How do I do so?
> 
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