Re: st: individuating existing (or missing) years in panel data

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

You don't say what you want this variable to contain
precisely and how it is to be aligned with your
existing data.

David Harrison has already given one guess at what
you want and one solution. Another is to use
-fillin- or -tsfill-.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

agostino@unical.it

I am using an unbalanced panel data, where some individuals are missing 
in certain years. My problem is that I need to know exactly what are the 
years for which each individual is missing, and the database is too 
large to proceed simply by inspecting the data...is there a way to 
generate a new variable, telling the existing (or missing) years for 
each individual?

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