st: AW: How to filter data

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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1. How do i sum up all the sales of several companies per year or quarter. Do i have do to that in a new dataset?


-bys year/quarter: egen totalsales=total(sales)-

See NJC`s http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004



2. I gernerated a new variable that marks when a company grew in the last quarter more than 50% with a 1. now i want to delete all observations of that company in the dataset in order to limit biases of M&As. I have different number ob observations per company( quartely reporting)



-drop if newvariablename==1-


It may be better to condition via -if- than to -drop- outright, though...

HTH
Martin


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Hello,

I am analyzing a paneldataset.
I have two questions:

1. How do i sum up all the sales of several companies per year or quarter. Do i have do to that in a new dataset?

2. I gernerated a new variable that marks when a company grew in the last quarter more than 50% with a 1. now i want to delete all observations of that company in the dataset in order to limit biases of M&As. I have different number ob observations per company( quartely reporting)


As I have no programming background I'm overstrained with the syntax.

Thank you very much for your help

Best regards,
Thomas Gericks
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