Hi
I had a similar difficulty with the tsset'ing of a panel dataset some
months ago.
In the end I created a new time variable, unfortunately I can't quite
remember the syntax I used and it's on my old computer hard drive, but
I remember that it was not entirely straightforward.
Then when I used tsset using the new time variable it was ok.
Hope this will help.
Andrew
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Andrew J Taylor
Head of Public Health Science
East Yorkshire and Hull Primary Care Trusts
Health House
Willerby
HU10 6DT
01482 672066
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kit Baum [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 08 June 2004 09:43
To: [email protected]
Cc: Clive Nicholas
Subject: st: tsset in panel data
Clive wrote that he had substantial difficulty getting the date
variable right in tsset'ing a panel. The routine tsmktim of Baum and
Wiggins (STB-57) was designed to ease that task in a pure timeseries
environment (where it is often difficult to decode the date formats
imported from, e.g., a spreadsheet, but you know what the first
observation should be labelled).
With minor modifications, tsmktim can handle this task in a panel,
where you specify an additional i(panelvar) option, similar to the way
in which you would specify that variable for -iis-. The revised version
of tsmktim is now available from SSC.
As a nonsensical example:
webuse auto
tsmktim counter,start(1970) i(rep78)
will create a panel from auto.dta in which the first observation of
every group of 'rep78' is labelled 1970, the second 1971, etc. Like the
original tsmktim, all date formats defined in Stata are supported (that
is, one could say start(1970q2), start(1970m9), or even
start(04jul1970)).
Kit
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