st: Re: how to create yearly lag in monthly data

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

If data are tsset, L12.x should work properly in any event, but if  
you want to do what Clive suggests, help tsfill.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On May 4, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Clive wrote:


> An obvious solution would be to create blank rows in your dataset,  
> if you
> don't already have them, each of them indicating the month and year  
> of the
> row. Using the lag operator should then work as intended.
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