st: TS Var Panel Data error - Repeated Time Values in Sample

[Michael K Romano <michael.k.romano@wmich.edu>]

Hello;

I was wondering if someone might have some information on what to do
with a situation I'm currently running into with my data.  I am
attempting to run a TS var commands in Stata 10 using a panel data-set
of approximately 171 countries from 1960 to 2000.  Stata will allow me
to run [tsset panelid time], however when i attempt to use the varbasic
syntax i get the following error:

repeated time values in sample
r(451);

I searched through the literature and some of the related posts from the
Stata support website, but have not found any indication as to how I
might fix this issue.  The closest I got to a solution was to ensure
that i identified a unique panel id when using tsset, which I had done
already.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

M. Romano

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Western Michigan University - Department of Political Science
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