Dear Stata-Users,
I have the following problem with regard to efficient programming/data
storing:
Assume I have a data in stacked form, e.g.:
Country Year Var1
A 1 q
A 2 w
A 3 e
A 4 r
A 5 t
B 1 z
B 2 u
B 3 i
B 4 o
=2E . .
=2E . .
=2E . .
C 5 p
What I want is to compute the average across countries of Var1 for each
year - and store these values to make a plot later on. So far I created a
new variable, say Mean, and filled it with the mean values. The new
variable, however, is also of size #Counties*#Years repeating the entries
for each year #Countries-times -- although I would need to store the mean
for each year only once.
What is the usual way to perform this task? Store the values in a matrix?
Can I easily plot this matrix later on?
Thanks for your help,
Jonas
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