Dascha Orlova <[email protected]>--
Try:
g n=1
collapse (count) n, by(firm year)
fillin firm year
replace n=0 if mi(n)
On Feb 12, 2008 9:04 AM, Dascha Orlova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> my question is fairy basic but I fail to find a solution myself. I have a sample of projects of N firms from 1990 till now. It looks this:
>
> year firm inventory
> 1990 X1    a
> 1990 x2    b
> 1990 x3    c
> 1990 x3    d
> 2000 x2    e
> 2000 x3    f
>
> The problem is: the only thing I am really interested in is the number on the projects per firm per year. So it should look like this:
>
> firm inv1990 inv2000
> x1   1       0
> x2   1       1
> x3   2       1
>
> Is there any count function which I can apply to modify my dataset like this given that the number of firms is quite large?
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