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Re: st: FW: How to keep only firms that have at least two consecutive years of data


From   Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: FW: How to keep only firms that have at least two consecutive years of data
Date   Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:13:16 +0500

Check this might help you.

xtset id year
bys id: gen nyear=[_N]
keep if nyear>1

Hope this works.
Anees


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:04 PM, umut senalp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear Statalist,
> I have a panel of 1250 units (firms) and five variables (with missing values), for the time period of  2003 to 2011. I would like to keep only firms that have a minimum of 2 consecutive annual observations for all variables together. I would be glad if you could help me to write a code for it.
> Regards
> Umut
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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