Thanks a lot to all who contributed to this thread. This is my first post here and I am so happy to get great feedbacks from you. I appreciate it much.
Rushad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:27:41 -0600
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: st: Re: Newbie question on creating variable
> As a variation of Eliot Mason's reply, Stata has several time series operators
> explained in the Users Guide at [U] 14.4.3.
>
> One could do the following:
>
> * Assuming that countrycode is a string
>
> . encode country, gen(id)
>
> . tsset id year
> panel variable: id, 1 to 2
> time variable: year, 1960 to 1970, but with gaps
>
> . gen diffgdp = s5.gdp
> (2 missing values generated)
>
> . l , abbr(16)
>
> +------------------------------------------+
> | countrycode year gdp id diffgdp |
> |------------------------------------------|
> 1. | BAN 1960 65 BAN . |
> 2. | BAN 1965 75 BAN 10 |
> 3. | BAN 1970 85 BAN 10 |
> 4. | CAN 1960 25 CAN . |
> 5. | CAN 1965 35 CAN 10 |
> |------------------------------------------|
> 6. | CAN 1970 45 CAN 10 |
> +------------------------------------------+
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kakatua Kutta" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:14 PM
> Subject: st: Newbie question on creating variable
>
>
> > countrycode year gdp
> > BAN 1960 65
> > BAN 1965 75
> > BAN 1970 85
> > CAN 1960 25
> > CAN 1965 35
> > CAN 1970 45
> >
> > Dear Stata users,
> > Lets say I have the above data set. I want to create a variable which measures
> the difference between the gdp in year 1970 and gdp in 1965 for each country.
> That is if "diff" is the new variable it would be diff = gdp(1970)-gdp (1965)
> for each country.
> > I am a new user and already spent hours on this. I would much appreciate your
> help.
> > Thanks in advance
> > AmBush
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