BRILLIANT!!! Thanks a lot Mr. Blasnik.
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ACHINTYA RAY
Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University, VU Station B #351819
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville,
TN 37235-1819, USA
email: [email protected]
URL: http://rayatmkt.tripod.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: st: Re: Re: tsset
> It certainly didn't save you time to use Excel (except that you didn't
know
> about a basic Stata command). In Stata, you could just:
>
> encode country, gen(countrys)
>
> which would create a numeric variable "countrys" that is also labeled with
> the string values.
>
> Michael Blasnik
> [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ACHINTYA RAY" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:53 PM
> Subject: st: Re: tsset
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > ***************
> > ACHINTYA RAY
> > Department of Economics
> > Vanderbilt University, VU Station B #351819
> > 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville,
> > TN 37235-1819, USA
> > email: [email protected]
> > URL: http://rayatmkt.tripod.com
> >
> > ----- 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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