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From | William Hart <whart@rsu.edu> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | RE: st: tsset error codes |
Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:32 -0600 |
Sorry that I wasn't clear. Using the code change that Maarten suggested, I entered: gen double newtime = q(1996q1) + timevar-1 I got the same error code as with the earlier Generate statement. I will study the references on Panel data. Thanks, Bill -----Original Message----- From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:41 AM To: 'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu' Subject: RE: st: tsset error codes What does "did not work" mean precisely? What did you type in Stata? What did Stata say in response? Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk William Hart Unfortunately, that did not work. I should add that each quarter has 3000-7000 observations; there not one row of data per quarter. I don't know if that makes a difference (very new at time series). Maarten Buis On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, William Hart wrote: > I am beginning an analysis of some Consumer Expenditure Survey data. I have quarterly data sets from 1996 through 2009. I have a variable called 'timevar' which is a sequential number unique to each quarter. I used the following code in an attempt to tsset the data: > > . gen newtime = q(1996q1) + timevar-1 try: gen double newtime = q(1996q1) + timevar-1 * * 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/ * * 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/