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Re: st: -finddup- for panel?Thanks


From   "joe J." <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: -finddup- for panel?Thanks
Date   Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:02:44 +0000

Many thanks Fred,

I did not know that more variables could be used in -finddup-.

Joe


From: Fred Wolfe <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: -finddup- for panel?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:05:20 -0500

Unless I misunderstand the problem, -finddup- can identify the duplicate and they can be excluded from the interpolation by an if statement
: finddup id panel, keep

Fred Wolfe


At 11:22 AM 4/20/2004, you wrote:

Hello,

I have a panel data set, where there are duplicates of the panel variable. But I want to retain them because the mistake is only in the panel variable, not in other variables in the observation. (For my analysis, I would aggregate the data so that the panel variable is no longer relevant.)

BUT, I keep the panel format in the beginning in order to fill in missing values using interpolation. To do this I want to keep out observations with the duplicate panel variable and append them back after interpolation has been done. For a non-panel data, I could use the stata-code -FINDDUP- (by Fred Wolfe downloadable from SSC). -finddup- helps to take out a particular duplicate observation and save it for later use. But it does not work in a panel set up. Is there any way around, other than doing it sepeartely for each year?
Joe

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