Dear statalist,
I am using perpetual inventory method to calculate capital stock but my
dataset has a lot of missing data on investment. I have two questions:
1. For any given country and industry, I want to create an index that
will tell me how many
non-missing numbers in a row I have prior to any year t.
For example, I have investment data for country i and industry j starting
from 1965 to 1975 then missing in 1976-1977 and continuing in 1978-2001. The
index should start from 1 in 1965 till 11 in 1975. then it equals 0 in
1976-1977 and starts from 1 again in 1978.
2. Less important, but still interesting. How to impute missing data if
the gap- like in previous example- is less or equal to 2? Imputation can be
based on average growth in capital stock for last 3 years.
Thank you,
Oleksandr Shepotylo.
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