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Re: st: Help Creating a Count Variable - correction


From   Jonathan Beck <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Help Creating a Count Variable - correction
Date   Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:18:12 +0200

sorry. use egen!

. bysort district party: gen partycount=_n==1
. bysort district: egen noParties=sum(partycount)
. drop partycount

there is most probably also a one-liner, but i hope this works as well.
jonathan


[email protected] wrote:
Hi all, I have a coding question.  I have individual-level data (candidates)
nested in aggregate-level units (electoral districts).  I am attempting to
create a variable that indicates that number of different parties (not the
number of candidates, but the number of political parties present) present in
an electoral district.

For example in District A: I have five candidates from 3 different parties.

I need advice on how to generate this variable.  I have tried the egen var=
count() method after sorting on the district.  This does not work. Any advice.

Thanks Gina Branton


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