Perhaps -tsfill- would help?
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Cunningham <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:21 pm
Subject: st: linear interpolation
To: [email protected]
> Rafal,
>
> I know I need to expand by 31,815 observations (1761 for every
> year
> in the 1980s and 1774 for every year in the 1990s).
>
> . local N = `_N' + 31815
>
> . set obs `N'
> obs was 5318, now 31815
>
> What I'm trying to figure out now is to assign values of a year
> for
> every 1761 observations through the 1980s, then 1774 for every
> year
> in the 1990s. For instance, to do this:
>
> year
> 1981
> 1981
> ...
> 1981
>
> (where the total is 1,761 for 1981, and the same would be for 82-
> 89,
> and 1774 per year for 1991-1999). I don't think using what you
> wrote, ". replace year=1975 + _n if year==." will work since I do
> not
> need year increasing with every observation. Does anyone know how
> to
> fill in missing data with such precision?
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