It is not clear what value -event- takes when it is not 1. I will suppose 0.
bysort x year (event) : gen occurred = event[_N]
spreads occurrences to all the weeks in the year in which they occurred.
keep if occurred
then -drops- entire years without events.
Nick
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, <rado645-bg@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> I would like to ask for help with data transformation. I have data on objects
> x1, x2,x3 that are observed over time (weeks). I have variables var1 and var2
> for each objects and also variable indicating the year of observation. In
> addition, a variable "event" indicates the time period when an event has
> occurred.
>
>
> The columns of the panel data set look as follows:
>
> x week var1 var2 year event
>
> x1 2006w2 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2006w3 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2006w4 var1 var2 2006
> x1 2007w7 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w8 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w9 var1 var2 2007
> x1 2007w10 var1 var2 2007 1
>
> x2 2008w2 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2008w3 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2008w4 var1 var2 2008
> x2 2009w9 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w8 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w9 var1 var2 2009
> x2 2009w10 var1 var2 2009 1
>
> I have many variables x that differ in number of weeks and years. I need however
> to keep the year when the event has happened and dropped any previous years.
> Given my data set, is this possible to be done in Stata?
>
>
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