log using match_single_year, text replace
*by Jean Roth, 2003-01-30, jroth@nber.org
*This program takes a minute or two to run per year
set mem 750m
set more 1
program define match2
use /homes/data/morg/match/
saveold /home/data/morg/match/match`1'4.dta, replace 
drop if mminsamp==4
drop mminsamp
if ( `1' == 1984 ) {
   sort `sort_stem' `sortnf'
}
if ( `1' == 1994 ) {
   sort `sort_stem' `sortf'
}
saveold /home/data/morg/match/match`1'8.dta,replace
clear
use /home/data/morg/match/match`1'4.dta
drop if mminsamp==8
drop mminsamp 
saveold /home/data/morg/match/match`1'4.dta,replace
  clear
! rm -f match.dct /tmp/match.raw
end
* Each block of commands does one year of the data. The data must be
* decompressed, and possibly have dashes converted to blanks.
* Then a dictionary for the particular year is prepared by
* concatenating a one line header (with the file name) to a generic
* dictionary body that covers several years of data that used the
* same format.
*Lastly, the data is read, modified, summarized and saved.

match2 1979 79 79_83
match2 1980 80 79_83
match2 1981 81 79_83
match2 1982 82 79_83
match2 1983 83 79_83
match2 1984 84 84_88
match2 1985 85 84_88
match2 1986 86 84_88
match2 1987 87 84_88
match2 1988 88 84_88
match2 1989 89 89_93
match2 1990 90 89_93
match2 1991 91 89_93
match2 1992 92 89_93
match2 1993 93 89_93
match2 1994 94 94_97
match2 1995 95 94_97
match2 1996 96 94_97
match2 1997 97 94_97
match2 1998 98 98
match2 1999 99 98
match2 2000 00 98
match2 2001 01 98
match2 2002 02 98
match2 2003 02 98