That doesn't sound very efficient, but here is what you asked for
(replace data.dta with the name of your datafile):
set seed 1234567891
forvalues i = 1/1000{
use data.dta, clear
bsample 700 if woman
save sample`i', replace
}
-- Maarten
--- Fenaba Addo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for an efficient way to select 1000 different random
> samples with replacement from a dataset and save each subsample in
> order to merge later on with a seperate dataset. My dataset contains
> 2000 observations, and I only need 700 in each random sample. I have
> a
> dataset containing males and females, however, I only want random
> subsamples of the women. I will later use the male observations, so I
> do not want to lose the male observations.
>
> So far my coding consists of:
> set seed 1234567891
> bsample 700 if woman
>
> I am uncertain how proceed from here.
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
>
> Thanks
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