Hello,

First of all I dont know if this is the proper site to publish this, correct me if its not.

Need some help:

I'd used the "distrate" command on a database "DATA.dta" before.

Done the cleaning on the database and then I modified the "pop.dta" file in which i had the persons-year since the catchment area was modified.

The original code was:
Code:
 
 distrate cases pop using pop.dta, standstrata(age_grp) popstand(pop) by(year sex) format(%8.1f) mult(100000)
the results were good expressed this way
Code:
| year sex cases N crude rateadj lb_gam ub_gam se_gam |
Did it twice with 2 different "pop.dta" and "pop2.dta" since i needed it with both.

The code was saved on the do-file

Now the issue im having is that i try to run the code and it says that

Code:
varibale pop not found
r(111);
Need help: tried using old data base, tried making a new pop dta file for the person-years and nothing.

thanks for your help.