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Re: st: Creating a dummy variable under certain conditions
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating a dummy variable under certain conditions
Date
Sat, 2 Jun 2012 13:47:46 +0100
Use the -sum()- function to produce cumulative sums:
bysort gvkey (date) : gen cuviol = sum(viol)
Then the previous four observations were 0 if and only if the
cumulative sum did not change over that interval. This gives you a way
of getting your indicator variable:
by gvkey : gen myindicator = cuviol[_n-1] == cuviol[_n-4]
Nick (on behalf of SAND*)
* Society for the Abolition of the Name Dummy
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM, sebas nicaise <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am struggeling with creating a new dummy variable. I have a very large (unbalanced) panel dataset that looks like this:
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> date gvkey viol
> 1997q1 1021 0
> 1997q2 1021 0
> 1997q3 1021 0
> 1997q4 1021 0
> 1998q1 1021 1
> 1998q2 1021 0
> 1998q3 1021 0
> 1998q4 1021 1
> 1999q1 1021 0
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> 1999q2 1021 0
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> 1999q3 1021 0
> 1999q2 1023 0
> 1999q3 1023 1
> 1999q4 1023 0
> 2000q1 1023 0
> 2000q2 1023 1
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> Where date is calender quarter, gvkey is the company identifier and viol a dummy which equals 1 if the firm is in violation of a covenant in a private debt contract.
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> The problem is that I have to create a new dummy variable ( new violation) which meets certain conditions.
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> The new violation dummy is only allowed to be 1 if in the previous 4 quarters of a certain company (gvkey) is 0.
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> This means for example that:
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> date gvkey viol Newviolation
> 1997q1 1021 0 0
> 1997q2 1021 0 0
> 1997q3 1021 0 0
> 1997q4 1021 0 0
> 1998q1 1021 1 1
> 1998q2 1021 0 0
> 1998q3 1021 0 0
> 1998q4 1021 1 0
> 1999q1 1021 0 0
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> 1999q2 1021 0 0
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> 1999q3 1021 0 0
> 1999q2 1023 0 0
> 1999q3 1023 1 0
> 1999q4 1023 0 0
> 2000q1 1023 0 0
> 2000q2 1023 1 0
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> I do not know how to tell Stata to create this variable, Hope someone is so kind to help me.
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