if v001 == `i'
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 30 September 2004 15:40
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: posting question.
>
>
> I guess that your inner loop
> should be more like
>
> forval i=1/`nclust' {
> cap mrate if v001==`i'
> post mortrate (`i') ($U_1_1)
> }
>
> Note that you don't need the -mortrate-
> variable.
>
> You ask for a -post- of v001. Now
> just imagine that you are Stata. v001
> is a variable. Stata will not
> -post- a whole variable. It shrugs
> its shoulders at your funny request
> and -post-s v001[1], wherever it is
> in the loop.
>
> Put otherwise, the -post- statement
> has _no_ consciousness that (a)
> it is inside a loop or (b) you
> expect it to do different things
> each time round the loop, unless
> you spell that out.
>
> But you don't need a -post- at
> all, given that you want the results
> in the same file.
>
> su v001,meanonly
> local nclust = r(max)
> gen mortrate = .
> qui forval i=1/`nclust' {
> cap mrate if v001==`i'
> replace mortrate = $U_1_1 if v001 = `i'
>
> }
>
> Now your results are merged without
> using a separate file or -merge-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> [email protected]
> >
> > The program mrate, from Macro International, computes
> > mortality rates and save
> > them in global
> > macros. The under-five mortality rate for example is saved
> in $U_1_1.
> > I want to use a DHS survey tdataset and compute mortality
> > rates in each cluster.
> >
> >
> > use benin
> >
> > g id= _n
> >
> > The cluster variable is v001:
> >
> > l v001 in 1/15
> >
> > +------+
> > | v001 |
> > |------|
> > 1. | 1 |
> > 2. | 1 |
> > 3. | 1 |
> > 4. | 1 |
> > 5. | 1 |
> > |------|
> > 6. | 1 |
> > 7. | 1 |
> > 8. | 1 |
> > 9. | 1 |
> > 10. | 2 |
> > |------|
> > 11. | 2 |
> > 12. | 2 |
> > 13. | 2 |
> > 14. | 2 |
> > 15. | 2 |
> > +------+
> >
> > su v001
> > Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min
> Max
> >
> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
> > v001 | 5953 130.4614 54.7308 1
> 210
> >
> > postfile mortrate v001 double mortrate using mortrate , replace
> >
> > su v001,meanonly
> > local nclust = r(max)
> > g mortrate = .
> > forval i=1/`nclust' {
> > cap mrate if v001==`i'
> > replace mortrate = $U_1_1
> > post mortrate (v001) (mortrate)
> > }
> > postclose mortrate
> >
> > use mortrate, clear
> >
> > l in 1/15
> >
> > +------------------+
> > | v001 mortrate |
> > |------------------|
> > 1. | 1 111.11111 |
> > 2. | 1 333.33334 |
> > 3. | 1 500 |
> > 4. | 1 54.054054 |
> > 5. | 1 . |
> > |------------------|
> > 6. | 1 111.11111 |
> > 7. | 1 . |
> > 8. | 1 . |
> > 9. | 1 . |
> > 10. | 1 . |
> > |------------------|
> > 11. | 1 100 |
> > 12. | 1 . |
> > 13. | 1 133.33333 |
> > 14. | 1 . |
> > 15. | 1 133.33333 |
> > +------------------+
> >
> > How to get the correct values of v001 so that I can merge
> > mortrate.dta with the
> > master benin.dta?
>
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