You should say exactly what you type.
Among other things, it is possible that you are
not declaring the panel variable to -tsset-.
As with monthly data 1960m1 is 1, etc. (see
Stata documentation), much of what you say
sounds what would be expected.
Nick
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> Subject: st: Declaring time series
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>
> I am having a lot of difficulty trying to declare my panel
> data as time series.
> I tried creating a variable that is listed in the dataset as
> 1960m1, 1960m2,
> etc, and it seems to be encoded (the value when in data
> editor is 0,1,2,etc).
> But when I try to declare it, it returns an error message 451
> "repeated values
> within panel". So I entered a new variable with values 0
> through 516 for each
> country in panel, and tried to declare that as a time series
> and it returns the
> same error message 451, saying "repeated values within sample".
>
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