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Re: st: How to total amounts by different values in a field?
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to total amounts by different values in a field?
Date
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:22:47 +0200
--- On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jumin Kim wrote:
>If I had the following dataset, and Iâd like to total the dollar amount by college (this is a student-level dataset), how would I go about doing this?
> dollar college
> 3000 University of Southern California
> 500 Bates College
> 1290 Bates College
bys college: egen tot = total(dollar)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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