If you read in dataset 2, apply -levelsof-, and then read in dataset 1,
the -local- will still be defined.
Otherwise an FAQ by Kit Baum
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/characteristics.html
may be of value.
Nick
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Kaulisch, Marc
I have a problem I am not able to solve and it might be that someone
else has a good solution at hand (using Stata 10 or 11).
My aim is to generate variables indicating if a person is in a certain
context.
Dataset 1 looks like
Person_id context1 context2 context3 context4 context5
The context*-variables contain numerical values that identify certain
institutions (institution_id). The real meaning/names of the
institutions is given in the Dataset 2:
Institution_id short_name abbreviation institution_nr
At the end I would like to do the following for each in Dataset 1:
. egen co`institution_nr' = incss(context*), sub(`institution_id')
. la var co`institution_nr' "Recent context `abbreviation' `shortname'"
But how do I get the information I need to do this in Dataset1 from
Dataset 2?
I tried to do this with generating locals from dataset 2:
. levelsof institution_id, local(institution_id)
But then I loose the right connection between institution_id and the
other vars in dataset2.
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