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RE: st: RE: how to -expand- and attach new group id to panel data


From   "sdm1" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: how to -expand- and attach new group id to panel data
Date   Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:20:38 +0100

Thanks Austin.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols
Sent: 30 September 2010 20:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: how to -expand- and attach new group id to panel data

bys group_id year: g clone=_n
egen newid=group(group_id clone)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two answers:
>
> 1. Why and how are you discriminating between clones of any panel?
>
> 2. -egen, seq()-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Steve
>
> I have a balanced panel data set with 3 annual observations for each of 3
> groups e.g.,
>
> Group_id        year
> 1               78
> 1               79
> 1               80
> 2               78
> 2               79
> 2               80
> 3               78
> 3               79
> 3               80
>
> Suppose I use -expand- to generate, say, one extra copy of the data for
> group_id 2 and two extra copies of the data for group_id 3.  Now I have:
>
> Group_id        year
> 1               78
> 1               79
> 1               80
> 2               78
> 2               79
> 2               80
> 3               78
> 3               79
> 3               80
> 2               78
> 2               79
> 2               80
> 3               78
> 3               79
> 3               80
> 3               78
> 3               79
> 3               80
>
> How do I give new group_ids to the copied data so that now:
>
> Group_id        year    Newgroup_id
> 1               78      1
> 1               79      1
> 1               80      1
> 2               78      2
> 2               79      2
> 2               80      2
> 3               78      3
> 3               79      3
> 3               80      3
> 2               78      4
> 2               79      4
> 2               80      4
> 3               78      5
> 3               79      5
> 3               80      5
> 3               78      6
> 3               79      6
> 3               80      6

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