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st: RE: Calculating average value using STATA program language
Date
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:40:41 +0930
<<>>
Instead of -foreach- or -forvalues- loops, try using -collapse-, for
example:
collapse (sum) sum_imp=imports (mean) avg_imp=imports, by(importer exporter
isic)
Phil
Philip Ryan
University of Adelaide
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Suryadipta Roy
Sent: Monday, 12 September 2011 1:17 PM
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Subject: st: Calculating average value using STATA program language
Hello everyone,
I am a newbie in terms of writing STATA codes, and intend to get that
corrected pretty soon. Meanwhile, I was wondering if any one could
help me with the following. I have been trying use foreach/forvalues
without any success for some time. Any help/suggestion/hint is greatly
appreciated.
importer exporter year isic imports sum_import
avg_import
AUS FRA 1979 311 8 24 12
AUS FRA 1980 311 16 24 12
AUS FRA 1979 313 0 0 0
AUS FRA 1980 313 0 0 0
AUS GAB 1979 369 0 0 0
AUS GBR 1976 311 10 30 10
AUS GBR 1977 311 20 30 10
AUS GBR 1978 311 0 30 10
AUT CAN 1977 312 10 10 10
AUT CAN 1978 390 20 20 20
FRA AUS 1976 311 5 10 5
FRA AUS 1977 311 5 10 5
FRA AUT 1980 369 4 4 4
In the hypothetical dataset above, I am trying to create the last two
columns (sum_import, and avg_import) from the "imports" column. For
the first column, the idea is to calculate the sum of imports e.g.
from FRA to AUS for each industry category (isic). Thus for the isic
category 311, the sum of imports in 1979 and 1980 is 8 + 16 = 24, and
the average in the two years is 12. Similarly, there were no trade
between AUS and GAB in 1979 for the industry category 369, and hence
the sum and the average value of imports = 0. The actual dataset has
over 200 countries covering data from 1976 - 1980 and I am trying to
calculate the average of the imports between 1976- 1980 in each
industry category. There are 28 such industry categories.
I remain grateful for any help.
Sincerely,
Suryadipta.
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