Or, for the simplest problems,
gen caseid = _n
Nick
[email protected]
P.S. note also that
. search identifier
points you to an FAQ on this:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/group.html
Alexander Tsai
> The subject of your e-mail suggested you wanted a random
> ID, but your
> e-mail asked for a consecutive ID --
>
> egen caseid=seq()
>
> will do the consecutive ID for you.
Clive Nicholas
> (1) How do you tell Stata to generate a case ID variable that
> consecutively numbers all the cases in your dataset,
> starting with 1, 2,
> 3, ... N?
>
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