st: Re: tsset and r451

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Use -duplicates list orgnr year-

One of my students just ran into this problem with COMPUSTAT. You  
would think there would be only one record per firm-year, right?  
Apparently with name changes, it is possible to have two records per  
firm in the year of the switch...

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Aug 27, 2005, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> I can't seem to get past the tsset and <r451> repeated time values  
> within panel problem.
>
> I have sorted by organzationnumber and year and I have looked  
> through the complete dataset and have only one year for each  
> organization.
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