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Re: st: Take the value from variable X if year equals 2010
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Take the value from variable X if year equals 2010
Date
Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:20:08 +0000
su adj_factor if year == 2010
gen newdollar = dollar * r(mean)
For a more detailed and systematic review, see
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0055
Nick
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On 20 January 2014 08:57, Torsten Häberle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have the following table
>
> Year Adjustment factor Dollar
> 2005 3 500
> 2004 2 200
> 2009 4 300
> 2010 7 400
> 2009 4 200
> 2010 7 100
> .... ...
>
> Now I want to generate a new variable. The new variable is
> Dollar * Adjustment factor of year 2010
>
> --> Basically, I want to multiply all my dollar values with the
> adjustment factor of 2010.
>
> This seems easy, but I don't get it.
> Something like:
> gen newdollar = dollar*(adjustment factor if year=="2010")
>
> Thanks
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