st: AW: using vector notation to simplify coding

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Welcome to the Stata community! Could you give a meaningful excerpt of your
data, then? Your task sounds easily doable w/o explicitly resorting to
vectors...



HTH
Martin


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Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. August 2009 15:58
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Dear Statalist members,

I have data in monthly expenditures in variables ing_1 through ing_6, and
survey months in variables mes_1 through mes_6 (these vary from respondent
to respondent). I wish to adjust the monthly expenditures for inflation, and
I have deflation factors in variables def_1 through def_12.

I am pretty accomplished in SAS, but only a novice in Stata. In SAS I would
say:

array def {12} def_1 - def_12;
array ing {6} ing_1 - ing_6;
array mes {6} mes_1 - mes_6;
do t=1 to 6;
   month=mes{t};
   ing{t}=ing{t}/def{month};
   end;

I have been searching unsuccessfully for the Stata analogue to this; I am
sure it is written somewhere and I am just not using the best search terms.

Will somebody please point me to the proper place?

Thanks!

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