GENIDSEQ: Stata module for generating a numeric sequence to represent long identifiers

Ariel Linden

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: genidseq generates a numeric sequence of values to better represent an existing identifier variable that may be too long to be visually helpful (this is typical in health care data where patient identifiers are purposely generated to be long and scrambled). The new ID sequence can be specified to start at any integer value and increase in any integer increment (with the default to start at 1 and increase in an increment of 1).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11
Keywords: identifier; ID; sequence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07-24
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install genidseq". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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