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Re: st: How to count countries by year
From
Chris Parker <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to count countries by year
Date
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:37:30 +0000
Hi Emanuele,
Assuming you have one observation per year per state you should be
able to do the following
bysort year: gen numcountry=_N
Chris
Chris Parker
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM, emanuele mazzini
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi there.
> I occurred in a little problem in counting the observations of my
> dataset. I have panel data and need to count how many countries are
> there for each year. I tried with the following command (assuming that
> cty1 is the name of each country):
>
> bys year: count if cty1[_n]!= cty1[_n-1]
>
> but Stata gives a result which is not what I was expecting.
> Can anybody help?
> Thank you everyone in advance,
> Emanuele Mazzini.
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