RE: st: RE: Problem with generating time dummies in panel data

["Daghan Yeldan" <caracicatriz2002@hotmail.com>]

thnx for the advice. But I tried them all before I sent this message. The 
problem I get is when I do this,

tab minder,g(min) it only creates two dummies instead of 3. I have 3 years 
of variables.
How can I solve this problem?
cheers,
d



> From: "Scott Merryman" <smerryman@kc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: RE: Problem with generating time dummies in panel data
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:38:06 -0500
>
> -search generate dummies- (or -findit generate dummies-) points to the FAQ:
>
>
> FAQ     . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . Creating dummy variables
>         . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Gould
>         2/03   How do I create dummy variables?
>                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/dummy.html
>
>
> Scott
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Daghan Yeldan
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 5:23 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Problem with generating time dummies in panel data
> > Importance: High
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have been investigating an effect of a law by using a panel data. This
> > panel data consists of three years of interviews on the labour market 
> and
> > I
> > created some variables among the asked questions. Just like every panel
> > data
> > this dataset has also id numbers which are characterized as resp in my
> > analysis. Moreover, by the help of the two variables h and hp I created
> > another variable namely, minder, which is basically hp<h in every year.
> > With the help of my instructor I manage to cobine all years and the
> > variables with append command.
> >
> > My problem now is, I have to generate time dummies for minder for every
> > year
> > that I have in my analysis. Hence, I need to have minder94, minder96,
> > minder98. When I list the data, it seems as below
> >
> >
> >
> >               resp96      y    h   hp   minder
> >
> >     1.          701   1994   32   32      0
> >     2.          701   1996   30   24      1
> >     3.         1602   1994    .    .        .
> >     4.         1602   1996   25    .       .
> >     5.         1602   1998    .    .        .
> >
> >     6.         1901   1994   40   40      0
> >     7.         1901   1996   30   30      0
> >     8.         1901   1998    .    .        .
> >     9.         6101   1994   40   32      1
> >    10         6101   1996    .    .        .
> >
> > I think I cannot generate it with the simple gen command, but the other
> > ways
> > that i try didn't succeed at all.
> > Kind Regards for your suggestions,
> > Daghan
> >
>
>
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/