---Alessandro Fiaschi wrote:
> Even if I add an "id (=1,2,3,...)" for each firm, "gsort id -time"
> makes only an order, but it doesn't rearrange data in the inverse
> order (from 2005 to 1993, in my case). Could you help me more? Thanks!
Alex:
I interpreted your question as: "I want to keep observations
belonging to the same firm together, but want to change the
sort order within each firm from most recent to least recent."
In that case you would type -gsort id -year-. I could have
also read your question as: "I want all the most recent
observation first and the least recent last." Then you would
type: --gsort -year id-. This is illustrated in the example
below.
HTH,
Maarten
*--------------begin example----------------
use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r9/pig, clear
list id week in 1/20, clean
gsort id -week
list id week in 1/20, clean
gsort -week id
list id week in 1/20, clean
*--------------end example------------------
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