Juan,
I faced the same problem in my work. So I took the harder route and created
a numeric ID for each country in Excel and then got the data into STATA. In
Excel, this is a piece of cake after you sort your data by the country name.
But taking the harder route saved a lot of time for me. May be there is a
better way out.
Achintya
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Manuel Jauregui" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:11 PM
Subject: st: tsset
> I have a panel data of countries and years and when entering the command
tsset
> country year, I receive the error message that the string is not allowed.
> Obviously country is a string. How can I solve this problem? Do I have to
> create
> an id number for each country? How can I do that?
>
> Thanks to all of you!
>
> Juan
>
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> * For searches and help try:
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> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
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* For searches and help try:
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* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
