st: Re: Loop for creating a sum of previous observations in an unbalanced panal data set

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Sep 18, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Kaspar wrote:

> I have an unbalanced panel dataset with about 50 Variables and 30000
> observations between 2003 - 2010 in long format.
> I need to create a running rum variable"3m_sum_variable" which
> aggregates a certain variable (lets call it) "value" 3 months into the
> past. In other words, the variable "3m_sum_variable" should be the sum
> of all "value" variables which occurred in the last 3 months relative
> (and including) to the current observation.
> 
> I think I might create such a variable fairly easy with reshaping.
> However, since I have about 50 Variable I would rather work with my
> long format and create a loop which "goes back 3 months" into the past
> and aggregates the previous "value" variables. Does anybody know of a
> loop that can do this efficiently for an unbalanced panel datatset?

If the panel is unbalanced, but there are no internal gaps in the time series, you should be able to use Cox and Baum's mvsumm:

ssc desc mvsumm

Kit

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