There is no Stata way in which the number of
observations can change from one variable
to another. If you have no data for
a particular person and a particular question,
you must enter that value as missing.
Nick
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Nirina M.
> I have not tried what Stas
> suggested yet because I still haven't defined my
> panelid (I am still doing some data cleaning but I ask
> my question ahead of time).
>
> I mean variables not observations.
>
> But now that you are talking about obs, I have another
> question:
> when I create the panel, I assign an id to each
> individual, but as we move through years, the number
> of obs decreases so I cannot assign the same panelid
> so how do we treat the missing observation?
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