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RE: st: RE: collapse panel data for each year


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: collapse panel data for each year
Date   Fri, 28 May 2004 17:29:11 +0100

Should work once you take the comma out of -group()-. 
But the intermediate step of creating
an extra variable, while it does no harm, is 
unnecessary. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Thomas
> Trikalinos (.Mac)
> Sent: 28 May 2004 17:22
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: collapse panel data for each year
> 
> 
> Would this be better?
> 
> . egen tralala = group(country, year)
> . collapse x y , by(tralala)
> 
> 
> On May 28, 2004, at 19:14, sarah smith wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nick,
> > If I use collapse as below:
> >
> > collapse x y, by(country)
> >
> > It is not useful for me since I need to run collapse for the data 
> > portions in each of the 20 years.
> > Best,
> > Sarah
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> >> Reply-To: [email protected]
> >> To: <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: st: RE: collapse panel data for each year
> >> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:53:46 +0100
> >>
> >> Once you've -collapse-d the data once, you
> >> have a new dataset, so I can't see that
> >> you'd want to do this in a loop.
> >>
> >> At first glance you just need to include
> >> the variable for country in the -by()- option.
> >>
> >> Nick
> >> [email protected]
> >>
> >> sarah smith
> >> >
> >> > I have panel data for several industries in 40 countries for
> >> > 20 years. For
> >> > each year, I am trying to collapse the data by country. I
> >> > tried to use
> >> > foreach and forvalues commands, but could not work it 
> out. I would
> >> > appreciate if you can help me.
> >>
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