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RE: st: Unique identifier from a string name
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Barry Quinn <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Unique identifier from a string name
Date
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:10:00 +0000
Thanks for all the suggestions.
The context of the problem is to build a panel from yearly data using firm names as the unique id with the -merge- command.
Nick/Daniel:
I had thought of -encode- and -egen-'s-group()- but my panel is unbalanced and I presume both of these are based on an alphabetical sort order?
Brendan: I think your solutions may prove more useful although am not sure how to turn it into an id to use with -merge-
best
Barry Quinn
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