Re: st: tsset - repeated time values within panel

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You don't say how you are defining panels with -tsset-. It sounds as
if you regard a country pair as defining a panel, in which case
something like

. egen group = group(cty1 cty2), label
. tsset group year

is the way to proceed.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:00 PM, emanuele mazzini
<madsoenistata@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a panel bilateral dataset with country pairs from year 1950 to
> 2006 and experiencing the error message repeated time values within
> panel when typing tsset. I have already read some messages sen by
> other people experiencing the same issue, and also I tried to follow
> the suggestion of the guide, but still cannot understand why i got
> that.
> To be more precise, as mine is a bilateral dataset, I have to say that
> every observation is identified by three variables (cty1, cty2 and
> year) so may be the problem relates to this, but obviously I am not
> sure.
> Finally, I am not really interested in the command per se, but the
> point is to replace some missing values which are time-constant and
> for which I do have data for the previous/following years.
> Can anybody help me to deal with this?
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