Error with eventdd

[Maxence Morlet]

Hi all,

First of all, here are my data:

input float(count_appr_compbased time_to_treat) long ONETSOCCODE float(yearmonth event_time_CBOF) byte(IndustryFE1 stateFE1)
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
0 -246 51 480 726 0 0
3 -244 51 482 726 0 0
4 -244 51 482 726 1 0
1 -243 51 483 726 0 0
2 -243 51 483 726 0 0
3 -243 51 483 726 0 0

At certain dates, frameworks called CBOFs were implemented at the occupation level (ONETSOCCODE), and I would like to study the impact of this implementation on the number of apprentices pursuing certain programmes (count_appr_compbased; this is a count variable). My data are repeated cross-sections.

This is the code I ran:

eventdd count_appr_compbased i.IndustryFE* i.yearmonth i.stateFE* if time_to_treat!=., timevar(time_to_treat) method(ols, cluster(ONETSOCCODE)) leads(5) lags(5) keepbal(ONETSOCCODE) balance graph_op(ytitle("Number of CB apprenticeships as a function of CBOF") xlabel(-10(1)10))

And this is the error message I received:

variable _lf_Ptime_3 not found

Please could someone let me know what I've done wrong?

Best regards,
Maxence Morlet

[Jared Greathouse]

Why do you have wildcards next to your industry and state variables?

[Maxence Morlet]

I want to include all of these variables and there are hundreds. I took the example FE1 in the dataex, but there are a lot of them.

[Maxence Morlet]

I want to include all of these variables and there are hundreds. I took the example FE1 in the dataex, but there are a lot of them.

[Jared Greathouse]

Rerun your code, but before you do put "set tr on" before it.

[Maxence Morlet]

Thanks Jared, the trace is absolutely massive, but here is the excerpt of interest:

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- begin rename ---
      - version 12
      - mata: rename_cmd("`3'")
      = mata: rename_cmd("")
      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ end rename ---
    - qui lab var lead`i' "t=-`i'"
    = qui lab var lead2 "t=-2"
      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- begin lab ---
      - label `0'
      = label var lead2 "t=-2"
        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- begin label ---
        - version 10.0
        - local vv : display "version " string(_caller()) ", missing:"
        - gettoken val : 0
        - if (strpos("`val'", "val") > 0 ) {
        = if (strpos("var", "val") > 0 ) {
          gettoken val 0 : 0
          syntax anything [, nofix]
          if "`fix'" != "" {
          local fix ", nofix"
          }
          gettoken var rest : anything
          while `"`rest'"' != "" {
          gettoken lab rest : rest
          local label "`lab'"
          }
          local vlist : list anything - lab
          if "`lab'" == "." {
          local lab ""
          }
          foreach var of varlist `vlist' {
          `vv' _label `val' `var' `lab' `fix'
          }
          }
        - else {
        - `vv' _label `macval(0)'
        = version 13, missing: _label var lead2 "t=-2"
        - }
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end label ---
      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end lab ---
    - local ++i
    - }
    - qui rename _lf_Ptime_`n' lead`i'
    = qui rename _lf_Ptime_3 lead3
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- begin rename ---
      - version 12
      - mata: rename_cmd("`3'")
      = mata: rename_cmd("")
variable _lf_Ptime_3 not found
      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ end rename ---
      qui lab var lead`i' "t=-`i'"
      local ++i
      }
      }
      else {
      local i = 1
      foreach n of numlist `t_1'(-1)`postbase' `prebase'(-1)1{
      qui rename _lf_Ptime_`n' lead`i'
      qui lab var lead`i' "t=-`i'"
      local ++i
      if `n'== `postbase'{
      local ++i
      }
      }
      }
      local k = 0
      foreach n of numlist `t0'(1)`tot'{
      qui rename _lf_Ptime_`n' lag`k'
      qui lab var lag`k' "t=`k'"
      local ++k
      }
      local tot_lags lag*
      local tot_leads lead*
      }
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------- end eventdd._LaGs_LeAdS ---
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end eventdd ---
r(111);

[Aarushi Dhingra]

Maxence Morlet Did you figure this out? I have incurred the same problem.

TIA,
Aarushi

[Aditi Routh]

Hi all, did you find a solution to this?