st: Re: Re: RE: Re: first program

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

No programming needed:

bysort id (date): keep if _n==_N

will keep the last observation (in date order) for each id.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christer Thrane" <ch-thran@online.no>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: st: Re: RE: Re: first program



> Is it possible to twitch it somehow so that it, for each unique person as 
> defined by the person id variable, keeps only the observation form the 
> last panel. In other words, I want to create a cross-sectional dataset in 
> which the observations (one per person) may stem from different panels.
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