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Re: st: RE: constructing an unbalanced panel data set based on existing


From   Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: constructing an unbalanced panel data set based on existing
Date   Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:31:11 +0200

Indeed....and the irony is that I proudly claimed that I had learnt something new after you initial posting (only to fail the first test a few hours later) so no excuses, I goofed but you can be sure, I have now got it :-)

Thanks once again

Ronnie

n j cox wrote:

This example affords amusement at various levels.

First, only earlier today I posted

gen length = end - beg + 1
expand length
bysort Persnr beg: gen month = beg[1] + _n - 1
drop length

as an answer to a question to Anna Manzoni. In
its main feature, this is the same problem,
but no one seemed to notice.

Second, the laugh is also on me. Alex's elegant
solution underlines that my code was twice as
long as it should have been, as

expand end - beg + 1
bysort Persnr beg: gen month = beg[1] + _n - 1

would have been enough.

(That said, a composite id plus year variable
will not be the way to define a panel dataset.)

Nick
[email protected]

Ronnie Babigumira

 > Im laughing at myself for what I posted before

Alex Ogan

 > expand ((End - Start) + 1)
 > bysort ID: gen IDyear = string(ID) + string(Start + _n - 1)

Arik

 > I have a list of observations by unit (firm),
 > which I would like to transfrom into a panle data set,
 > by year/unit.
 >
 > Right now, the first variables of the observations
 > look something like
 >
 > ID      Start      End      Industry
 > 1       1985       1990        3
 > 2       1988       1991        1
 > 3       1982       1993        3
 >
 > And I'd like them to look like
 >
 > IDyear       Industry
 > 11985            3
 > 11986            3
 > 11987            3
 > 11988            3
 > 11989            3
 > 11990            3
 > 21988            1
 > 21989            1
 > 21990            1
 > 21991            1
 > 31982            3
 > 31983            3
 > ...
 > 31993            3
 >
 > Reshape does not seem to help, as I have a
 > (unbalnaced) range, rather then a fixed list of
 > variables. Any ideas, what I can do?
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