You have a somewhat idiosyncratic view of
non-consecutive observations here. 1991 and 1992
are surely consecutive!
If you want to keep the longest run for each panel,
one problem with that is that two or more runs
may have the same length.
Perhaps you want some variation on
tsspell, f(L.time == .)
bysort id _spell: egen length = max(_seq)
by id: egen maxrun = max(_seq)
keep if maxrun == length
That should keep spells tieing for the
same maximum length.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Roberto
> Sent: 11 October 2004 15:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: Data manipulation: how to keep only
> consecutive obs in
> an
>
>
> Dear Nick
> thank you very much for your kind reply
> I had actually looked at the suggested faq but I am not quite
> sure it is
> the answer to what I am after
> See the thing is that I need Stata to "clean" the dataset from
> non-consecutive obs for each firm.
> What I can achieve using either
> . tsset time
> . gen run = .
> . replace run = cond(L.run == ., 1, L.run + 1)
> . egen maxrun = max(run)
>
> or
>
> tsspell, f(L.time == .)
> by id: egen maxrun = max(_seq)
>
> is to identify the maximum # of consecutive obs per firm.
> Say for example that for a firm in my unbalanced panel I have
> observations
> for the years: 1991,1992,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001.
> So this firm has N=7 and maxrun=5
> What I would like to do is to find a command to drop 1991 and
> 1992 and to
> keep only the 5 consecutive observations.
> Is there a way to do this?
> Sorry if I was not clear before and thank you very much for your time
> Regards
> Roberto Mura
> PhD candidate
> University of York
>
>
>
> At 15:01 11/10/2004, you wrote:
> >I am not clear what the issue is here. The complaint
> >seems to be that Stata does what you tell it to do,
> >and not something else that you want.
> >
> >I'd recommend a look at
> >
> >How do I identify runs of consecutive observations in panel data?
> >http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/panel.html
> >
> >by Vince Wiggins and friend, which may help.
> >
> >Nick
> >[email protected]
> >
> >Carter Ivan Rees
> >
> > > There are duplicate commands already written for Stata, run help
> > > duplicates.
> > >
> > > The following link has also come in handy for me in the past
> > > if you are
> > > looking to count the recurrence of a particular individual
> > > across time.
> > >
> > > Your issue of consecutive years would require the code
> offered here to
> > > be tweaked a bit.
> > >
> > > http://www.stata.co.uk/support/faqs/data/dups.html
> >
> >Roberto
> >
> > > I am currently trying to run a GMM estimation using the xtabond2
> > > command.
> > >
> > > I have an unbalanced panel so I would want to manipulate my
> > > dataset in a
> > > way that Stata only keeps the continuous observations for
> > > each firm For
> > > example consider these 3 firms
> > >
> > > code name year run maxrun _spell _seq _end
> > > n
> > > N
> > > 135540 A 1995 1 5 1 1 1
> > > 1
> > > 6
> > > 135540 A 1997 1 5 2 1 0 2
> > > 6
> > > 135540 A 1998 2 5 2 2 0 3
> > > 6
> > > 135540 A 1999 3 5 2 3 0 4
> > > 6
> > > 135540 A 2000 4 5 2 4 0 5
> > > 6
> > > 135540 A 2001 5 5 2 5 1 6
> > > 6
> > > 900327 B 1991 1 7 1 1 0 1
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1992 2 7 1 2 0 2
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1993 3 7 1 3 1 3
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1995 1 7 2 1 0 4
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1996 2 7 2 2 0 5
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1997 3 7 2 3 0 6
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1998 4 7 2 4 0 7
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 1999 5 7 2 5 0 8
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 2000 6 7 2 6 0 9
> > > 10
> > > 900327 B 2001 7 7 2 7 1 10
> > > 10
> > > 134982
> > > C 1997 1 1 1 1 1 1 3
> > > 134982 C 1999 1 1 2 1 1 2
> > > 3
> > > 134982 C 2001 1 1 3 1 1 3
> > > 3
> > >
> > >
> > > with the tsspell command I have been able to identify the
> > > maximum number
> > > of consecutive observations per firms.
> > > The problem is that if I write
> > > keep if maxrun>=5
> > > stata only drops firm "C" whereas I would want it to drop all the
> > > non-consecutive observations in all panels so that the
> database would
> > > look
> > > like:
> > >
> > > code name year
> > > 135540 A 1997
> > > 135540 A 1998
> > > 135540 A 1999
> > > 135540 A 2000
> > > 135540 A 2001
> > > 900327 B 1995
> > > 900327 B 1996
> > > 900327 B 1997
> > > 900327 B 1998
> > > 900327 B 1999
> > > 900327 B 2000
> > > 900327 B 2001
> > >
> >
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