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Re: st: RE: generating a variable?


From   Ignacio Martinez <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: generating a variable?
Date   Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:08:10 -0400

Thanks a lot for the help.

I have my code doing what i need now :-) http://goo.gl/Ul5YO

Thanks again!

-Ignacio

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Sarah Edgington <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
> Your code isn't producing errors as written, but it also isn't doing
> anything like what you intend.
> Stata is reading the first iteration of the first line as:
> if 5112001==3 then total_4_year==total_4_year+1
> Because variable names can't start with numbers Stata is evaluating whether
> 5112001==3.  Since the number 5112001 is not equal to the number 3 Stata
> doesn't even process the rest of the line.  Thus you don't get an error
> message telling you that the rest of the line doesn't make sense.  On the
> other hand, if you were to say "if 3==3 then x=1" you would get the error
> "unrecognized command:  then."
> So the reason you're getting all zeros is that you set the values of your
> totals to zero before the loop.  Stata isn't actually doing anything to your
> data in the loop because none of the if statements evaluate as true.  If you
> were to correct your code so that it used the actual variable name E5112001
> you would get errors.
>
> -Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ignacio Martinez
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: generating a variable?
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> My code runs but does not work (i only get a vector of zeros).
> http://goo.gl/27nG6
>
> Any idea what is the right way of doing what i want?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ignacio
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am very surprised that you imply that this even works at all. "then" is
> just fantasy code so far as Stata is concerned. Alternatively, if this is a
> mix of Stata and pseudocode, then please show us the real Stata code.
>>
>> See also
>>
>> FAQ á á . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . áif command vs. if
>> qualifier
>> á á á á. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . áJ.
>> Wernow
>> á á á á6/00 á áI have an if or while command in my program that
>> á á á á á á á áonly seems to evaluate the first observation,
>> á á á á á á á áwhat's going on?
>> á á á á á á á áhttp://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/ifqualifier.html
>>
>> to learn that -if- as you (intend to) use it is not what you want.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Ignacio Martinez
>>
>> I'm having troubles generating 2 new variables with my data.
>>
>> I have the following variables: ID; E01-E12 where E01 =3 indicates
>> that i is enrolled in a 4 year college in January, and E05=2 means
>> that he is enrolled in a 2 year college in may.
>>
>> I want to generate a 2 new variables Total_2_year that is the total
>> number of month that i is enrolled in a 2 year college and
>> total_4_year that is the total number of month that i is enrolled in a
>> 4 year college.
>>
>> What is the best way of doing this?
>>
>> My first attempt was this
>> <code>
>> *Generates vectors of total months enrolled in college gen
>> total_2_year = 0 gen total_4_year = 0 gen total_none = 0
>>
>>
>> forvalues month=1/9 {
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==3 then total_4_year==total_4_year+1
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==2 then total_2_year==total_2_year+1
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==1 then total_none==total_none+1
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==-4 then total_none==-4
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==-4 then total_2_year==-4
>> á á á á á á á áif 511200`month'==-4 then total_4_year==-4
>> á á á á}
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> but i get only zeros... :_(
>>
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