Re: st: tsset - repeated time values within panel

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't know what you mean by "does not work". That command should
work if your data have been properly -tsset-. Show us the result of
typing

. tsset

Nick

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM, emanuele mazzini
<madsoenistata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick.
> Thank you very much for your suggestion. The command you gave me did
> work, but how can I replace now missing values for some given years
> for which I have data for the previous/following years? I tried the
> command: replace myvar = L.myvar if myvar >=. but it does not work.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Emanuele.
>
> 2011/3/29 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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