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st: patterns of panel data (indicators of)


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To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: patterns of panel data (indicators of)
Date   Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:16:11 -0400

Dear All,

I am working with panel data and I found the program xtpattern extremely useful.
Basically, it creates a string variable for each observation with the patterns
you would obtain by "xtdes" (describing) the data, sp say:
1.1..1
indicates that a unit of observation (say, a household) is present on time
periods 1,3 and 6.
What I need now is to know how many contiguous observations there are, so for
instance:
1.1..1 would be zero
111111 would be six
111.11  would be (perhaps) three (the max).

The obvious thing would be to parse through the string generated by xtpattern...
but I couldn't find an elegant way around this problem. Any ideas on this?

Thank you all

best,

***************************
Guillermo Cruces

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