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Re: st: fillin not filling in -- Stata 12


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: fillin not filling in -- Stata 12
Date   Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:41:38 -0400



You are mistaken about what -fillin- does.  It only creates enough new observations to give you every combination of municipality, year, and month that are *currently* in the data.  In your example:

2 municipalities x 2 years x 5 months = 20


Steve
[email protected]


On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Dorothy Bridges wrote:

My data are as follows:

municipality     year     month
muni1             1990    1
muni1             1990    2
muni1             1991    5
muni2             1991    6
muni2             1991    7

According to the documentation and to my prior experience with fillin,
"fillin municipality year month" should give me 50 observations (ten
for each municipality -- i.e., muni1 1990 1 / muni1 1990 2 / muni1
1990 3 ... muni1 1991 6 muni1 1991 7).

Unfortunately, this does not happen.  Some of the desired 50
observations appear, but many do not.

(Of course, my actual data have close to one million observations, but
the structure is the same).

The closest archive thread I can find is this one
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-01/msg00891.html, which is
unresolved (as far as I can tell).

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.  I am very confused.
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