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Re: st: Fixing the value in egen command


From   Michael Hanson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Fixing the value in egen command
Date   Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:55:52 -0500

That's because you did not follow Maarten's instructions.  Compare:

You:     bys country (year): gen initgdp = gdp[_n==1980]
Maarten: bys country (year): gen initgdp = gdp[_n==1]

_n is a counter, not your year variable. You want the first (_n=1) observation, not the one-thousand, nine hundred and eightieth (_n=1980) -- the latter doesn't even exist in your dataset. Stata sees _n and "year" as distinct variables. Only you know that 1980 (year==1980) is the first observation within each country (_n=1). Stata can index observations by its internal counter (_n), but not your year variable values.

Hope this helps,
Mike

On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Choudry T Shehzad wrote:

Thanks Martin:

But it changes all values to zero.

My data in very simple form is like

            country........year...GDP...initgdp*
            Argentina... 1980...300.....300
            Argentina... 1981...310....300
            Argentina... 1982...340....300
            Argentina... 1983...380....300

            Brazil......... 1980...400....400
            Brazil...........1981...410....400
            Brazil...........1982...440....400
            Brazil........... 1983..480....400


* The variable I want to make

When I use your command

bys country (year): gen initgdp = gdp[_n==1980]
bys country (year): replace initgdp = sum(initgdp)

all values of initgdp become zeros

May be I could not explain better earlier.

Best regards,

Tanveer


Maarten buis wrote:
--- Choudry T Shehzad <[email protected]> wrote:

Now I want to make another variable that contains initial value of
GDP fixed (for all years) equal to e.g. value of GDP in year 1885
corresponding to each country.


bys country (year): gen initgdp = gdp[_n==1]
bys country (year): replace initgdp = sum(initgdp)

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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