RE: st: Fill

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

If that's the answer, there is supporting discussion at 

How can I replace missing values with previous or following nonmissing values or within sequences?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/missing.html

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

Scott Merryman

Like this?

clear
input id decile	year
1	1	1999
2	6 	1999
4	9	1999
4	.	2001
2	.	2001
1	.	2001
2	.	2002
end

bys id (dec): replace dec = dec[_n-1] if dec ==.
sort year dec
l

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Tiago Fonseca
<tiago.p.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I solve this problem. I have a set of data like these:
> Industry code
>        Decile
>        Year
> 1
>        1
>        1999
> 2
>        6
>        1999
> 4
>        9
>        1999
> 4
>        .
>        2001
> 2
>        .
>        2001
> 1
>        .
>        2001
> 2
>        .
>        2002
>
>
> I have a industry code, the decile of the base year (1999) and I want to
> fill the decile in the remaining years. The solution will be like:
> 9
> 6
> 1
> 6
>
> How to solve it for a large set of data?

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