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From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: Generating summary variables in TSCS data using values across long time periods
Date   Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:04 +0100

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BTW, -bysort ccode (year): - does not achieve the effect you want, as you
correctly suspect (hence the need for -rolling-): It merely restricts the
analysis to each level of "ccode" and -sort-s according to "year" in the
process - though for the standard deviation, -sort-ing hardly matters :-)


HTH
Martin


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Geoffrey P
Gesendet: Montag, 18. Januar 2010 14:40
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Betreff: st: Generating summary variables in TSCS data using values across
long time periods

Dear all,

I have two questions, which I believe are related, and deal with generating
summary variables based on longer time periods using time-series
cross-sectional data.

1. I?m using the Polity IV data set which gives national democracy scores in
a country-year format.

As a measure of volatility I want to generate a variable that captures the
standard deviation in a country?s polity score (polity2) in a moving window
over 25-year periods. E.g. For Iraq in 1990 this would be the standard
deviation in polity2 for 1965-1989, etc. I also want a similar measure
looking at volatility in 25-year windows using future polity scores.

I have tried variants of the ?egen- command like the following

.bysort ccode (year): egen sd(polity2) 

I believe this simply gives the standard deviation in polity2 across the
entire time period for each country, but I cannot figure out how to specify
by moving 25-year periods.

I was successful in using the ?tssmooth ma- command to create a moving
average variable over similar 25-year periods, but have not found a way to
generate something similar for standard deviations, or alternative measures.

2. I also want to generate a dummy variable by country-year that equal ?1?
if a country achieved above a particular polity2 score ?x? over the previous
25-year period. Is there a way to do so with using some form of the
expression 
-if polity2[_n-1]>x ? polity2[_n-25]>x- 

Is there a way to avoid specifying [_n-t] 25 separate times?

Any help on either issue would be greatly appreciated.

Best, Geoff



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Department of Political Science
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University of Kentucky
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