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Re: st: Creating a data subset with subjects chosen at random


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Creating a data subset with subjects chosen at random
Date   Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:29:30 +0100

On Fri, Jun 15 2012, Amal Khanolkar wrote:

> - I would like to create a subset of the above dataset that consists of
> 1. 100,000 subjects, 2. With the same distribution of subjects by
> country of origin as above in the parent dataset. 3. Tell Stata to
> choose the subjects at random. The dataset of course has several other
> variables. But I would like to define the new data subset based on the
> above country of origin as it is my main exposure variable.

Something like this

// create random variable
gen x = runiform()

// sort by country and x
sort cbirth x

// create a variable within country identifying the first 5% (change
// this proprtion as you wish)

by cbirth: gen subsamp = _n <= (_N+0.5)*0.05

tab cbirth subsamp, col

tab cbirth sex if subamp


Regards,

Brendan
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