In addition to the other suggestions, Tony Brady at Sealed Envelope (-net from
http://www.sealedenvelope.com/ -) has written an ado file (-xfill-) that does
fills in the missing static entries in panel data sets.
Hope this helps,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devendra Amre" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:24 AM
Subject: re: st: panel data
> Hi,
> I have a longitudinal (panel) data set with variables that are constant over
> time (e.g. gender). Some of the entries for an individual are missing
> (actually not entered) and I wish to fill in these missing entries.
>
> ID Gender Year
> 1 M 1991
> 1 . 1992
> 1 . 1993
> 1 M 1994
> 2 . 1988
> 2 F 1989
> 2 . 1990
> 2 . 1991
>
> Can you suggest a way to fill in these missing entries?
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Devendra Amre MBBS., Ph.D.
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