st: RE: RE: -forval- with -inequal7-

["Andreas, Peichl" <a.peichl@wiso.uni-koeln.de>]

Hey Lola,

>These do work when limited to 'consecutive' dates (eg 19901/19904), the >problem arises when they span  'missing' dates as there is no 19905. The >programme runs and calculates the gini for the dates up until a 'missing' >date and then stops with an error. This is not a problem with other >commands using the same dataset, but has arisen with -inequal7-.

The problem is that not all dates exist and inequal7 returns an error message when you try to use it on a zero obs subsample.

You could follow Nick Cox's advice and have a look at:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html

or use capture to avoid Stata stopping with an error:

g gini=.
qui forval i = 19901/20071 {
capture inequal7 income [fw=wei] if date==`i', returns
replace gini=r(gini) if date==`i'
}


Cheers,
Andreas

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