st: pasting into stata

[Drew Reed <drew.reed1@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have to paste into Stata in a certain way and I'm hoping someone
knows code that will make this easier for me. I am working with panel
data and need to populate a 'sum' variable so that I can subtract a
variable that contains entity specific information so that I can
produce a spillover variable.

I have basically collapsed my information by date so that I am given a
sum of all events that have happened during the 2813 days being used
for observations. There are 70 entities I would need to paste this
information into and as of right now the only way I know how to do
this is to go through my dataset manually, filtering by id, and then
putting in the variable.

Is there a faster way to paste as such? I had originally used a looped
code to try to generate these variables and after a week of running
this code it produced faulty measures. I'd rather just put in the time
and get it right but I'd also like to know if there is a paste option
where I can paste the same data for all id values.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Drew
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