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Re: st: How can I creat a new dataset with just one variable (80 obs.) from scratch ?


From   Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How can I creat a new dataset with just one variable (80 obs.) from scratch ?
Date   Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:13:26 -0600

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clear
set obs 80
gen age = _n
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754



On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Anna Reimondos wrote:

Hello,
I would like to create a completely new dataset from scratch with just
one variable. I would like the variable (age) to have 80 observations,
increasing sequentially.

Example:

age
1
2
3
4
..
80


I have tried a few different things, eg

clear
gen age=_n

or ...

clear
gen age=1
replace age=_n
keep if age<=80


but nothing happens....

Does anyone know how to do this. I have tried searching for
information but it is one of those things which is hard to search for.
Obviously I open the data editor and input the values by manually but
I would prefer to have something reproducible.

Thanks!
Anna
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