To tell Stata these are panel data, -sort-ing
alone is not sufficient. Check out -tsset-.
Nick
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Yaojun Li
>
> Could you just try
>
> sort id year sex income
Paulo Loureiro
> I would like to convert these repeated time panel data (pooled data)
>
> id year sex inc
> -----------------------
> 1 80 0 5000
> 2 80 1 2000
> 3 80 0 3000
> 1 81 0 5500
> 2 81 0 2200
> 3 81 1 2000
> 1 82 0 6000
> 2 82 1 3300
> 3 82 0 1000
> in the form of data of panel in series of time.
> Data should be in long format:
>
> id year sex inc
> -----------------------
> 1 80 0 5000
> 1 81 0 5500
> 1 82 0 6000
> 2 80 1 2000
> 2 81 1 2200
> 2 82 1 3300
> 3 80 0 3000
> 3 81 0 2000
> 3 82 0 1000
>
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