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Re: st: Combining and repeating value from another dataset


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Combining and repeating value from another dataset
Date   Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:38:43 +0100

You don't need anything fancy.

Suppose the one value in Y.dta is 42.

In X data, you just go

gen e = 42

That's it. (If the value is a string value, say "Stata is easy", it's
the same story.)

That said, why do this? What analyses need it?

Nick
[email protected]

On 14 April 2013 06:19, Rahber Thariani <[email protected]> wrote:

> A question to which I am sure there is a simple answer, but as a novice in
> Stata, one I am having a hard time finding.
>
> I have a dataset with variables a, b, c and d (stored in X.dta). There are
> about 5000 observations.
>
> In another dataset I have only variable e(stored in Y.dta). There is only
> one observation.
>
> I want to create a composite dataset with variables a, b, c, d  and e. I
> wish to repeat the same value of e 5,000 times in my new dataset for each of
> the existing 5,000 observations of a, b, c, and d.
>
> What do you suggest to create this structure?
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