Re: st: Inconsistency with the 5 year avarage panel data set

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:34 PM 4/26/2006, ilker kaya wrote:
> Dear Austin,
>
> Here is the code that I am using for sorting and
> taking 5 year avarages. I hope this part would be
> enough to tell if there is anyting wrong.
> ifscode is unique for each country in my data file and
> year is between 1960-2002.
> Thank you very much.
> Regards,
>
> ilker
>
>
>
>
> sort ifscode year;
I suspect Austin nailed the problem.  See -help sort-.  Try using the 
-stable- option and see if all is well after that, e.g.

sort ifscode year, stable;


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