Mandy, how about:
gen str4 main_location=""
forvalues i=1/4 {
replace main_location=location`i' if main_firm==`i'
}
Tim
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Mandy fu <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure how to connect a variable's value with another variable's
name.
My data set is about characteristics of all the firms for which
respondents work in a year. Variable "main_firm" (whose value is
1,2,3,4) provides the number of the firm where the worker works for
the longest time in that year. the variables location1-4 give the
location of each firm the respondent works according to the time
sequence from the earliest to the most recent. It looks like follows:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
workerID main_firm location1 location2 location3 location4
1 2 MA NY NJ
MA
2 1 NY MI NJ
----
3 3 FL NY MA ----
4 1 NH -----
---- ----
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For example, for the first respondent, he totally works for 4 firms in
that year and firm 2 is the one he works the longest time.
I want to generate a new variable "main_location" to indicate the
location of the main firm , like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------
workerID main_location
1 NY
2 NY
3 MA
4 NH
-----------------------------------------------------------
That is, new variable"main_location" equals variable "location`i' " ,
where `i' is the value of variable "main_firm". I 'm not sure how to
code this. Any comments will be helpful.
Thanks!
Mandy
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