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Re: st: Spells creation


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Spells creation
Date   Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:11:26 +0100

Anna wrote:

I have to create a spell file (job spell file) from a person month file.
Anyone has an idea of how to do? In my person month file I have persnr,
month, and a variable indicating the sequence number of the job (and other
variables not interesting in this case).

I have person month file which looks like this:

Persnr  month   n_job(this indicates the order numebr of the spell)
1    1  1
1    2  1
1    3  1
1    4  2
1    5  2
1    6  2
1    7  2
1    8  3
1    9  3
1   10  3

And from this I would like to create a spell file like this

Persnr  beg  end   n_job
1   1  3  1
1   4  7  2
1   8 10  3
------------------------------------------------------------

use -collapse-:

   collapse (min) beg=month (max) end=month , by(Persnr n_job)

BTW, this was a nice and precise question; you show hat you have and what
you want, and that makes it easy to understand.

Svend

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Svend Juul
Institut for Folkesundhed, Afdeling for Epidemiologi
(Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology)
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DK-8000 Aarhus C,  Denmark
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