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st: replace blank string values
From
richard boylan <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: replace blank string values
Date
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:17:42 -0500
I have a dataset which is a panel: id, year where id is the numeric
value the individual.
I also have the name of the individual, however, for some
observations, the name is missing.
How do I go about replacing the missing values for name?
One way that works is
sort id year
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
...
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
However, is there a more efficient way of doing this, say using egen?
Richard
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