--- "Herrnstadt, Evan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> sort year
> by year: gen count = _N
This works in principle, and nicely illustrates the power of the -by-
and -_N- combination, but you have to be careful when you have missing
values (these would be counted aswel). You can adjust this code to take
this into account, but it is probably easier and and saver to use
-contract-.
--Maarten
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