obs_geocopy

Copy all observations of a given geographical area/country onto another geographical area/country set of observations.

obs_geocopy(dsn, igeo, ogeo, time=, replace=NO, lib=WORK); 

Arguments

• dsn : an input reference dataset;
• igeo : a string representing a country ISO-code or a geographical zone;
• ogeo : ibid, a string representing a country ISO-code or geographical zone;
• time : (option) selected year for which the copy is operated; default: not set, and all igeo observations are copied into ogeo observations;
• replace : (option) boolean flag (yes/no) set to actually replace of igeo observations by ogeo observations; default: replace=NO, i.e all igeo observations are preserved in the dataset;
• lib : (option) name of the library where dsn is stored; by default: empty, i.e. WORK is used.

Returns

It will update the input dataset dsn with ogeo observations that are copies of the igeo observations at time time.

Example

Given the table dsn:

geo	time	ivalue
EU28	2016	1
EU28	2015	1
EU28	2014	1
EU27	2016	2
EU27	2015	2
EU27	2014	2
EU	2016	3

the following command:

%obs_geocopy(dsn, EU28, EU, time=2015 2014, lib=WORK);

will update the table dsn as follows:

geo	time	ivalue
EU28	2016	1
EU28	2015	1
EU28	2014	1
EU27	2016	2
EU27	2015	2
EU27	2014	2
EU	2016	3
EU	2015	1
EU	2014	1

Run macro %_example_geo_copy for more examples.

See also

%silc_agg_process, %obs_duplicate, %meta_countryxzone.