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Re: st: How to create an automatic numbering within stata


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to create an automatic numbering within stata
Date   Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:02:09 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Thu, 8/10/09, amatoallah ouchen wrote:
> I was wondering if you could help me figure something out
> related to the creating of  an automatic  numbering within
> stata. in fact, my data set are sorted by ticker and by
> date, I need to create a column that contains the numbering
> of the observations (1,2....,N) within each ticker.

bys ticker (data) : gen int id = _n

hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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