RE: st: creating variable summarizing for each individual properties of other members of a group at t-1

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

My code 

bysort ind_id (yearmonth) : gen ind_score = sum(ind_entry) 
by ind_id : replace ind_score = ind_score == 1  & ind_score[_n-1] != 1
sort yearmonth
gen all_score = sum(ind_score)
by yearmonth : replace all_score = all_score[_N]
replace all_score = all_score - ind_score
bysort ind_id (yearmonth) : gen prevscore = allscore[_n-1]

was certainly intended to solve your second problem. I've not tested it. Are you saying it doesn't? And if it doesn't what does it get wrong? 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Erik Aadland

Thank you Nick and Jorge for your suggestions. They were very helpful, and I am very grateful.

Jorge, your suggested code below worked perfectly for my "first" variable.

I am still struggling with my "second" variable. In the "second" variable, I am trying to create a variable that for each ind_id counts the total number of other ind_ids, excluding the focal ind_id, in the dataset that have experienced ind_entry =1 at least once up until and including yearmonth -1. In other words, I am trying to create a variable that for each individual tracks the number of other entrants in the dataset up until and including yearmonth -1. I am trying to track ind_ids that have entered, not how many times they have entered.

Any and all input on this problem would be very much appreciated.
 

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