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RE: st: creating an unique household identification number


From   "Simo Hansen" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: creating an unique household identification number
Date   Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:48:13 +0300

Thanks Nick for your contribution. Indeed, I have a big data set-3.5 million
observations.
When you suggested using label with egen group (), do you mean to use this
command in the following form?
egen double newhhid=(batch_nu hhid_nu).
Thank you very much.
Simo

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: creating an unique household identification number

In addition, -egen, concat()- works either way, 
and even with a combination of numeric and string 
inputs. The result is always string. 

Incidentally, with -egen, group()- you would
usually like to add the -label- option. However, 
Simo's dataset might be really big, in which 
case -egen, concat()- might offer the better choice. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Friedrich Huebler
 
> If both variables are numeric you can do this:
> 
> . gen long id1 =  Batch_nu*10 + hhid_nu
> 
> If both variables are strings you can do this:
> 
> . gen id2 = Batch_nu + hhid_nu
> 
> This command works with strings and numeric variables:
> 
> . egen id3 = group(Batch_nu hhid_nu)

Simo Hansen 

> > I have a household level data that includes a batch number and
> > within each
> > batch number household id numbers. It looks like in the following
> > form:
> > 
> > Batch_nu          hhid_nu
> > 10100025          1                 
> > 10100025          2        
> > 10100025          3      
> > 10100031          1
> > 10100031          2
> > 10100031          3
> > 10100037          1
> > 10100037          2
> > 10100037          3
> >  My question is that how I can create an unique identification
> > number for
> > each household using batch_nu and hhid_nu.

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