Re: st: How to balance an unbalanced panel data set

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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Nick Cox's -dropmiss- may be useful. You may want to check out -findit 
dropmiss-

It seems your panel data-set is in wide format. For most purposes, 
that's very inconvenient, at best. You may want to -reshape- your 
data-set to long format.

HTH,
Philipp

Christian Bustamante wrote:
> Hi and thanks for your response. That's not what I'm looking for. I
> will be more explicit.
> Supose the folliwing data set with each row represents a panel
> observations for a variable:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> . . 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 1 2 3 . 5 6 7 8
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .
> 1 2 3 4 5 . . .
>
> I want to keep only the observations like the first one and drop the others.
>
> Bests
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de> wrote:
> > .
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/panel.html
> >
> > HTH,
> > Philipp
> >
> > Christian Bustamante wrote:
> > > Hi Statalisters,
> > >
> > > I have a very unbalanced panel data set, composed for a lot of panel
> > > and 12 years. I'm interested in "balance" this panel, keeping only the
> > > panel tha have information for a set of variables in all the period.
> > > How can I do that?
> > >
> > > Thanks
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