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st: RE: generating a new variable with the egen command


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: generating a new variable with the egen command
Date   Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:42:17 -0000

This is a FAQ. Look for material on precision
in the helps and FAQs. 

Your call should be 

egen double newvar = ...

or 

egen long newvar = ... 

If these are integers, -long- is better. Either type 
is allowed by the syntax. See the help for -egen- once more. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

[email protected]

> I'm trying to generate a new variable given by the sum of an 
> existing variable 
> by year (as I have 2 six month observations for the same 
> year) and individual.
> The command is the following:
> egen newvar=sum (oldvar), by(id year)
> 
> the problem is that the original values are, for instance: 
> 42224464 and 
> 67090781, but the sum that STATA computes is 109000000, 
> instead of 109315245. 
> Why does it round like that?
> The old variable is stored as "double", I have tried to 
> change the storage 
> type, using recast, but STATA does not allow to do it, as 
> many values would be 
> changed...

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