--- Renuka Metcalfe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to bring "meanworkplacex1 by firm and
> occupations" and meanworkplacex2 by firm and
> occupations" from a matched employee and employer data
> to the same employer only data (which only comprises
> of about 2200). When I use the collapse command to
> bring 2 variables the observations increase to about
> 4660. I do not think the observations should increase
> to beyound about 2000. I would be grateful, if anyone
> could let me know, how I could bring the observations
> to less than 2200.
This seems to be a problem with your data and you do not give us the
exact commands you used, so it is very hard for us to solve this
problem. There are two things I can do given the information you have
given us: 1) remark that the by option in -collapse- assumes that a
missing value is also a level, this might increase the number of cases
to more then you expect, and 2) give you an example that works with
data that is available to everyone (with Stata):
*------------ begin example --------------
sysuse auto, clear
count
collapse (mean) price mpg if rep78 < ., by(rep78)
count
*------------- end example ---------------
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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