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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: tsset - repeated time values within panel |
Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:02:29 +0100 |
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? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/