Dear Statalist:
I have a dataset in which my dependent variable -- say, life
expectancy, so I can use the uslifexp.dta file as an example -- is
measured according to two different methods. In other words, life
expectancy is measured according to method a in some years and method
b in other years. Method a always yields measures that are lower than
those generated with method b, though much lower varies by
observation.
I would like to identify the time trend in this data. Hence I regress
the outcome variable on year and a dummy variable for the observations
generated with method a, a la:
sysuse uslifeexp.dta, clear
**(Imitating my actual data)
gen le_measure1=.
replace le_measure1=le-5 if year<=1950 | year==1965 | year==1972 |
year==1986 | year==1989
replace le_measure1=le if le_measure1==.
**The regression:
gen measuredummy=1
replace measuredummy=0 if le_measure1==le
regress le_measure1 year measuredummy
Now I would like to generate predicted values of le, **as if** all of
the method-a observations had been created using method b. In other
words: when I follow the regress command with "predict le_predict" and
then look at "twoway (scatter le_measure1 year) (lfit le_measure1
year) (line le_predict year)", I want the le_predict line (green) to
be straight. It would be something like "predict le_predict as if
measuredummy==0," if such a command existed.
Thank you!!
D. Bridges
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