> Murat Karaoz wrote:
> > how to form the "id" (identifier) variable in this situation.
> > Because all observations have different id every year which
> > create problem. then xt functions dont work.
--- Clive Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since you appear to say that all of your IDs are unique, I'd have
> thought
> the obvious answer would be simply to:
>
> . g id = _n
>
> and proceed thereon.
You will still not have a panel dataset, and that makes sense since a
panel means that you opserve the same persons multiple times. If you
don't do that then you'll never get a panel dataset.
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