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Re: st: creating age variable for all ids


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: creating age variable for all ids
Date   Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:14 +0100 (BST)

--- MAY BAYDOUN <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to create a dataset in which I already
> have the id numbers but I would like to replicate them
> and add another variable age that has exactly the same
> values for all ids. So, the original file is:
> 
> id
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 
> The file I want to create is:
> 
> id   age
> 1    60 
> 1    65
> 1    70
> 1    75
> 1    80
> 2    60 
> 2    65
> 2    70
> 2    75
> 2    80
> ..
> 
> I was wondering if you can help find the easiest way
> to do that. Thanks a lot!

See -help expand-, -help by-, and the example below:

*--------------- begin example -------------
clear
input id
1
2
end

expand 5
sort id

by id: gen age = 55 + 5*_n
list
*---------------- end example --------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands

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