Dear Maarten and Clive,
Thank you very much.
I think it seems the case that I will not be able to have panel data
unless I have at least partially repated (unbalanced) id 's over the
years.
Warm regards
Murat
>> Murat Karaoz wrote:
>> > how to form the "id" (identifier) variable in this situation.
>> > Because all observations have different id every year which
>> > create problem. then xt functions dont work.
>
> --- Clive Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Since you appear to say that all of your IDs are unique, I'd have
>> thought
>> the obvious answer would be simply to:
>>
>> . g id = _n
>>
>> and proceed thereon.
>
> You will still not have a panel dataset, and that makes sense since a
> panel means that you opserve the same persons multiple times. If you
> don't do that then you'll never get a panel dataset.
>
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