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st: converting a local of variable names in string variables


From   Johannes Geyer <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: converting a local of variable names in string variables
Date   Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:14:09 +0100

Dear Statalist,

I am trying to match a data set of variable idenfifiers (data1) and a data 
set that consists of these variables (data2).

data1:

var id  v1      v2      v3
1       jk12    kk14    lk16
2       jk24    kk67    lk90
3       jk16
..

data2:

obs id  jk12    jk24    jk16
1       12000   56      1
2       12000   71      0
3       ...
..

now I need to have a procedure that links variable names from data2 with a 
subset "var id" from data1. My idea was to save variable names in a local 
macro, then generate string variables from it and merge it to data1 - 
however, I am not used to strings and I do not know if that is possible.

I tried the following

******************
#d;
use data2.dta, clear;
qui ds;
local x "`r(varlist)'";
qui d;
local y "`r(k)'";
di `y';

forvalues no = 1/`y' {;
gen str61 typ`no' = "";
local n = `n' + 1;
local Q: word `n' of `x';
replace typ`no' = string(`Q');
};
****************** 
This ends with the content (not the names) of variables copied as string 
in the new variables - but this is not what I need, I need names only.

I would like to proceed by using the index to reshape and then merge it to 
the other data set. With export and manipulation by hand I might be able 
to solve this problem, but I prefer to have it in Stata.

I appreciate any suggestion on that,

thank you

Johannes





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Johannes Geyer
Deutsches Institut f�r Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)
German Institute for Economic Research 
Department of Public Economics
DIW Berlin
Mohrenstra�e 58
10117 Berlin
Tel: +49-30-89789-258

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