Despite what you say, 01111111 is also 7 years
without stopping.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> The length of study is 8 years. If the
> period of work was 7 years without a
> break, then there are only two possibilities:
> the person did not work in the first year
> or the person did not work in the last year.
>
> by pid : egen emplo = count(work == 1)
> by pid : gen work7 = count == 7 & (work[1] != 1 | work[8] != 1)
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> > I have a question about how calculate the number of years
> > work continuously.
> > I have a panel of 8 year and I want calculated the person how
> > has work
> > for 7 years no stop. (1111110)
> > I used this procedure:
> > by pid : egen emplo=count(work==1)
> > here work is=1 if work. after I did the tab emplo and I have
> > the table
> > for 8 years.
> > but there aredifferente sequence how 0111111, or 1011111 ecc and I
> > want only 1111110.
> >
> > for ex: 1011111 but is incorrect
> > pid emplo wave work
> > 1 7 1 1
> > 1 7 3 1
> > 1 7 4 1
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