Now the closing verbal comment is wrong. This
counts those who leave, return, ..., and then leave
again just once for each firm.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 15 August 2006 22:42
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: number of missing from previous year
>
>
> My code was wrong. I had
>
> bysort firm personid (year): gen left = _n == _N
> bysort firm year : replace left = 0 if year == year[_N]
> by firm year: egen number_left = total(left)
> tabdisp firm year, c(number_l.eft)
>
> but it should have been
>
> bysort firm personid (year): gen left = _n == _N
> bysort firm (year) : replace left = 0 if year == year[_N]
> by firm year: egen number_left = total(left)
> tabdisp firm year, c(number_left)
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> As flagged earlier, this counts those who leave even
> if they return later in the panel.
>
> Nick
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>
> Wanli Zhao
>
> > Nick & David,
> > Thank you so much for your help. I tried both solutions. I
> > think I got what
> > I want from David's code. I just need to reshape the data. I
> > really like
> > Nick's solution because the simpler, the better. But, I got
> > the result of
> > all 0 from Nick's solution and I do not know what's wrong.
> > I'd like to learn
> > more please.
>
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