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Re: st: How to balance an unbalanced panel data set


From   Christian Bustamante <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to balance an unbalanced panel data set
Date   Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:37:18 -0500

Still appears  Obs per group: min = 1m. Why?

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> So the end result is that you end up with only panel 4? If you throw out
> observations due to missingness beforehand, that is the inevitable
> conclusion...
>
>
> *************
> clear*
>
> inp year        id      var1
> 1998    1       .
> 1999    1       .
> 2000    1       34
> 2001    1       23
> 2002    1       25
> 1998    2       56
> 1999    2       45
> 2000    2       67
> 2001    2       47
> 2002    2       .
> 1998    3       11
> 1999    3       13
> 2000    3       .
> 2001    3       .
> 2002    3       23
> 1998    4       44
> 1999    4       24
> 2000    4       33
> 2001    4       36
> 2002    4       41
> 1999    5       24
> 2000    5       35
> 2002    5       45
> end
>
> drop if mi(var1)
>
> tempvar length
> bys id (year): gen `length'=_N
> su `length', mean
> bys id: drop if `length'!=r(max)
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Christian
> Bustamante
> Gesendet: Freitag, 3. April 2009 04:15
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: How to balance an unbalanced panel data set
>
> Hi Martin
> This is a better example:
>
>  ---------------
> | year  id  var1|
> |---------------|
> | 1998  01   .  |
> | 1999  01   .  |
> | 2000  01   34 |
> | 2001  01   23 |
> | 2002  01   25 |
> |---------------|
> | 1998  02   56 |
> | 1999  02   45 |
> | 2000  02   67 |
> | 2001  02   47 |
> | 2002  02   .  |
> |---------------|
> | 1998  03   11 |
> | 1999  03   13 |
> | 2000  03   .  |
> | 2001  03   .  |
> | 2002  03   23 |
> |---------------|
> | 1998  04   44 |
> | 1999  04   24 |
> | 2000  04   33 |
> | 2001  04   36 |
> | 2002  04   41 |
> |---------------|
> | 1999  05   24 |
> | 2000  05   35 |
> | 2002  05   45 |
> |---------------|
>
> In this example I only want the panel with id 04 with data in all the
> years, and drop the panels 01, 02 and 03 with a missing value in at
> least one year for var1. I also want to drop the panel 05 with doesn't
> have values in all years.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>> <>
>>
>> You ought to give a much clearer excerpt of your data.
>>
>> If it is really as simple as the one below, use -egen myrowmiss,
> rowmiss()-
>> and you can easily drop depending on whether the row has any missings by
>> -drop if myrowmiss >0 & !mi(myrowmiss)-.
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>> _______________________
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Bustamante"
> <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: st: How to balance an unbalanced panel data set
>>
>>
>>> Hi and thanks for your response. That's not what I'm looking for. I
>>> will be more explicit.
>>> Supose the folliwing data set with each row represents a panel
>>> observations for a variable:
>>>
>>> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
>>> . . 3 4 5 6 7 8
>>> 1 2 3 . 5 6 7 8
>>> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .
>>> 1 2 3 4 5 . . .
>>>
>>> I want to keep only the observations like the first one and drop the
>>> others.
>>>
>>> Bests
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Philipp Rehm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/panel.html
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Philipp
>>>>
>>>> Christian Bustamante wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Statalisters,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a very unbalanced panel data set, composed for a lot of panel
>>>>> and 12 years. I'm interested in "balance" this panel, keeping only the
>>>>> panel tha have information for a set of variables in all the period.
>>>>> How can I do that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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