st: RE: extract rownames corresponding to data as unique codes

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I don't know what SLAs are. 

In your case, the row names, originally column names, are apparently all numbers, so you should be able to loop over the names and store them in a variable (_not_ column) something like this:

qui dstdize freq pop sex agegp, by(sla) using (t0)

drop _all
return list
matrix C = r(crude)', r(adj)', r(lb)' , r(ub)'
svmat C, names(col)

gen rowname = . 
qui forval i = 1/95 { 
	replace rowname = r(c`i') in `i'
} 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Judy You

I am running a "dstdize" age-standardised rate syntax and got a result
with Crude and age-adjusted rate, together with lower and upper limit.

The age adjusted rate is reported by SLA level (which there are 95
rows or records). I have save the matrix in a file but the result
doesn't come along with SLA code. I could force it to do by merge the
predefined file with sla code to the one saved in the matrix. I
believer there should be the smart way to do.

Here is my log file. Thanks for your help in advance!

----------

. qui dstdize freq pop sex agegp, by(sla) using (t0)

. drop _all

. return list

scalars:
                 r(k) =  95

macros:
                r(by) : "sla"
               r(c95) : "`"5050"'"
               r(c94) : "`"5000"'"
               r(c93) : "`"4809"'"
------
                r(c3) : "`"205"'"
                r(c2) : "`"203"'"
                r(c1) : "`"201"'"

matrices:
                r(se) :  1 x 95
                r(ub) :  1 x 95
                r(lb) :  1 x 95
               r(adj) :  1 x 95
             r(crude) :  1 x 95
              r(Nobs) :  1 x 95

. matrix C = r(crude)', r(adj)', r(lb)' , r(ub)'

. svmat C, names(col)
number of observations will be reset to 95 Press any key to continue,
or Break to abort obs was 0, now 95

. save t1,replace
file t1.dta saved

Crude   Adjusted        Left    Right
.0144418        .0213993        .0160632        .0267354
.0242798        .0409689        .030746 .0511917
.0123417        .0186174        .0149574        .0222773
.0097357        .0142612        .0108197        .0177028
.0260393        .051086 .0389991        .0631729

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The saved file looks like that, but what I like is to have a column
named as SLA, corresponding to the SLA codes in the original data.
Could any expert give me some hint?


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