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Re: Fw: RE: st: RE: Data aligning


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: Fw: RE: st: RE: Data aligning
Date   Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:18:58 -0400

Are there two variables named -Reporter-, and two named -Partner-?
This is why it is confusing.

Let's assume you really have something like:

 rep1 part1 year1 var1 rep2 part2 year2 var2

Then you should separate in to 2 files and merge the
second one to the first. Something like:

 preserve
 keep rep2 part2 year2 var2
 ren rep2 rep1
 ren part2 part1
 ren year2 year1
 sort rep1 part1 year1
 save temp, replace
 restore
 drop rep2 part2 year2 var2
 sort rep1 part1 year1
 merge rep1 part1 year1 using temp, keeping(var2)

hope this helps,
Jeph




Anita Sayal wrote:
I think you are right..I didnt explain it well.
This is purly a data arranging issue, pre-estimation. The
second set of Reporter Partner Year to be dropped once Var2
data is aligned with corresponding the Year Report Partener (frist 3 columns)..for example A D 1986 .4 should be aligned with 2nd row 2..and C A 1989 .3 should be in row 6..its a question of how to do this for a large dataset..
Reporter Partner Year Var1 Reporter Partner Year Var2
   A	      B      1985    10	  A	   D     1986   .4
   A	      C      1986    12	  C	   A	1989   .3
   A	      D      1986    14				
   B	      A      1985    15				
   B	      C      1985    18	
C A 1989 20

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Nick Cox <[email protected]>
wrote:

From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: st: RE: Data aligning
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 3:05 PM
Tell people more about your precise data structure and
variable names. (You can not have two variables with the same name.)
I think your previous description led Joseph (and no
doubt
several
others) to guess that you were talking about two
different
datasets. Nick [email protected]
Anita Sayal

I repeated your example..Its works fine doing
manually..but
how would I
replicate for a very large data set and when all data
is in
single file

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Joseph Coveney
<[email protected]> wrote:

Would someone Please tell me what commands arto
ae
used to
align the data for
Var2 with corresponding Reporter Partner
combination
in
Column 1 and 2 for
corresponding years.. trying to do thiis for a
large
data
set..TX


Reporter   Partner  Year  Var1  Reporter
	Partner	Year  Var2
A B 1985 10 A D 1986
.4
A	         C     1986    12	  C	   A	1989   .3
A	         D     1986    14				
B	         A     1985    15				
B	         C     1985    18				
C	         A     1989    20				


------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
-merge- is what I think you're looking for.
Try
the
do-file below, and see
whether it gives you the kind of data alignment
that
you
want.

Joseph Coveney

clear *
set more off
input str1 Reporter str1 Partner int Year byte
Var1	
"A"	"B"	1985	10	
"A"	"C"	1986	12	
"A"	"D"	1986	14				
"B"	"A"	1985	15				
"B"	"C"	1985	18				
"C"	"A"	1989	20				
end

tempfile tmpfil0
save `tmpfil0'

clear
input str1 Reporter str1 Partner int Year float
Var2
"A"	"D"	1986	.4
"C"	"A"	1989	.3
end

merge Reporter Partner Year using `tmpfil0',
sort
list Reporter Partner Year Var1 Var2, noobs
sepby(_merge)
exit
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