st: Re: how to make a balanced panel data automatically

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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help tsfill

will allow you to fill in all of the missing country-year records  
with missing values. That is generally not that useful of a thing to  
do in Stata. But it will not make it into a balanced panel, which is  
defined as a dataset where each of N countries has T timeseries  
observations without missing values.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Aug 4, 2008, at 02:33 , yjh jsh wrote:


> I have an unbalanced data ranging from year 1950 to 2004 for 130
> countries. Is there any way I can do to tranfer this into a balanced
> data with missing values for all the missing year records? i
> thanks
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