> Johan Hellstrom:
> For graphing purposes I need to create a (filter-)variable that assign a
> value to every 1.000 observation (in total there is about 80.000
> observations). Although it could be done manually, can anyone tell me
how to
> do this automatically?
You could work with a loop and -in-:
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gen x = .
qui des
forvalues m = 1(1000)`r(N)' {
replace x = something in `m'
}
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Note that this assigns a value to observation 1, 1001, 2001, ... , last
observation.
Johannes
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