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st: RE: RE: Retain only one observation for each id in an unbalanced panel


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Retain only one observation for each id in an unbalanced panel
Date   Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:01:37 -0600

One potential problem is that if the firms start on different years, this
will result in a cross-section with observations of different years.  

Would it not easier to use an -if- qualifier in the statements you need to
test for an interaction effect?

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Retain only one observation for each id in an unbalanced
> panel
> 
> bysort firmid (year) : keep if _n == 1
> 
> Nick
> [email protected]
> 
> ALICE DOBSON
> 
> > I use Stata 9.1. I have an unbalanced panel of firms [firmid]
> > over several
> > years [year] and want to consider only the first year for each id.
> >
> > Basically, I need to convert the panel data into a
> > cross-sectional data to
> > test for an interaction effect.
> >
> > Could anybody please help me?
> 
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