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st: Re: How to generate "total" observation?


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: How to generate "total" observation?
Date   Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:25:56 -0400

<.>
How about generating a total variable?

egen sumvar1 = sum(var1), by(id)

or use -collapse- with the -by- option to (temporarily: see -help preserve-) create a dataset of totals.

If doing this on the fly is enough, -help tabstat-. E.g.

tabstat var1, by(id) stat(sum)


Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html



On Aug 2, 2009, at 02:33 , statalist-digest wrote:

I have a (possible) dummy question. I have a panel data set like the following:

id  year var1
01 2000 10
01 2001 20
02 2000 15
02 2001 25

I want to create a new observations, with id=03, that sum the var1
over the other ids. Obviously, I'm no going to use this observations
to make some estimation, but total statistics. How can I generate this
aditional observations.

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