st: Problem with generating time dummies in panel data

["Daghan Yeldan" <caracicatriz2002@hotmail.com>]

Dear all,

I have been investigating an effect of a law by using a panel data. This 
panel data consists of three years of interviews on the labour market and I 
created some variables among the asked questions. Just like every panel data 
this dataset has also id numbers which are characterized as resp in my 
analysis. Moreover, by the help of the two variables h and hp I created 
another variable namely, minder, which is basically hp<h in every year.
With the help of my instructor I manage to cobine all years and the 
variables with append command.

My problem now is, I have to generate time dummies for minder for every year 
that I have in my analysis. Hence, I need to have minder94, minder96, 
minder98. When I list the data, it seems as below



             resp96      y    h   hp   minder

   1.          701   1994   32   32      0
   2.          701   1996   30   24      1
   3.         1602   1994    .    .        .
   4.         1602   1996   25    .       .
   5.         1602   1998    .    .        .

   6.         1901   1994   40   40      0
   7.         1901   1996   30   30      0
   8.         1901   1998    .    .        .
   9.         6101   1994   40   32      1
  10         6101   1996    .    .        .

I think I cannot generate it with the simple gen command, but the other ways 
that i try didn't succeed at all.
Kind Regards for your suggestions,
Daghan


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