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RE: st: setting a counter


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: setting a counter
Date   Thu, 15 May 2003 09:10:11 +0100

Rajiv Sinha wrote:

> > I have T months of data for N firms  such that there are 
> T rows for each of
> > the N firms.  How do I set up a simple counter in Stata 
> to reflect time and
> > that varies from 1 to 12 and repeats itself for each of 
> the N records?

Ulrich Kohler
 
> . by N (T), sort: gen t = _n

Also, for future reference, check out 
-egen, seq()- and -egen, fill()- 

Nick 
[email protected] 

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