Hi. I have four files in a folder that have the following naming convention: "emr22-24_`x'.dta". I want to run a loop over them that does the following:
1. generates a new binary variable (median_tele in the code below) based on the median of the variable "week_doctele"
2. based on this new variable, creates two new datasets from each of the dataset: one for median_tele==1, and the other for median_tele==0
3. name the dataset with median_tele==0 "emr22-24_`x'_low.dta"
4. name the dataset with median_tele==1 "emr22-24_`x'_high.dta"
Any help in doing so will be much appreciated!
1. generates a new binary variable (median_tele in the code below) based on the median of the variable "week_doctele"
2. based on this new variable, creates two new datasets from each of the dataset: one for median_tele==1, and the other for median_tele==0
3. name the dataset with median_tele==0 "emr22-24_`x'_low.dta"
4. name the dataset with median_tele==1 "emr22-24_`x'_high.dta"
Any help in doing so will be much appreciated!
Code:
local x MTC KVX GMRV KAR
local files: dir "${db}\inputdata" files "emr22-24_`x'.dta"
foreach file of local files {
sum week_doctele, detail
gen median = r(p50)
gen median_tele = (week_doctele>=median)
}
*sample from one of the datasets
input long con_id float(week_num week_doctele)
1 1 .25
1 2 .45
1 3 1.2
1 4 .25
1 5 .65
1 6 .55
1 8 .1
1 9 .15
1 11 .05
1 12 .15
1 14 .1
1 16 .15
2 44 .04545455
2 46 .04545455
2 50 .04545455
2 54 .04761905
2 55 .0952381
2 98 .1904762
2 99 .04761905
2 100 .0952381
2 101 .14285715
2 102 .04761905
2 104 .3809524
2 105 .23809524
2 107 .1904762
2 108 .3333333
2 110 .1904762
2 111 .14285715
2 112 .14285715
2 113 .4285714
2 114 .1904762
3 1 .05
3 2 .25
3 4 .1
3 5 .2
3 6 .05
3 11 .1