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Re: st: AW: problem with the generate command


From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: problem with the generate command
Date   Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:29:26 +0100 (CET)

Dear Martin,
Thank you very much for all your help since the beginning I use Stata.
Here are my data (just the beginning!):

country	     healthinit	H	 health
 Afghanistan	13.00 	13.00 	 23.32
 Albania  	116.00 	116.00 	 16.96
 Algeria	     76.00 	76.00 	 169.6
 American Samoa	..  	..  	 1.06
 Andorra	      1922.17 	1922.17 	 54.06
 Angola	     24.00 	24.00 	72.08
 Antigua and Barbuda	492.00 	492.00 	138.86
 Argentina	283.00 	283.00 	89.04
 Armenia	      53.00 	53.00 	145.22
 Aruba	      ..  	..  	1.06

Healthinit is the health expenditure per capita in current dollars. It is
a string variable. It comes from the wdi database. As I want them in
euros, and that the exchange rate is 1.06 (year is 2003), I wrote to
stata:

encode healthinit, gen(H)
generate health=1.06*H

H is a long variable.

Danke schön für die Helfe!

Isabelle













































































>
> <>
>
> A bug in -generate- would be weird indeed. Give an excerpt of your data,
> and
> show us exactly what you typed and what Stata made of it...
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. März 2009 10:08
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: problem with the generate command
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a health expenditure variable in current dollars, called H. It is a
> numeric variable ("long"). I called it "H". I want to convert it in euros,
> e.g to multiply by 1,6 so I write in my do-file:
> "gen health=1.6*H"
> I am very surprised because the results are wrong. It is very strange. For
> instance:
> H=13.00   and  Health=23.32 (first observation)
> or: H=116.00 and Health=16.96 (2d one)
> or: H=76.00 and Health=169.6
>
> Thank you very much for help
> Best regards
>
> Isabelle
>
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