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Re: st: growth rate
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Nick Cox <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: growth rate 
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Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:48:59 +0100 
-help xtset- explains about setting by panel and year. Once you have
done that correctly
gen growth=D.loggdp
is sufficient.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Lynn Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use -bysort id: gen growth=D.loggdp- to generate growth rate of GDP in
> panel data. I also wrote -xtset year- before this command, but Stata11 told
> me "time variable not set". I am assuming this command  is only for
> time-series data. What about panel? What is the command used in panel to
> generate growth rate?
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