irodriguez wrote:
I have a desbalanced panel data with data of firms with many years of observations for each
example:
firm year benefit
A 1 10
A 2 19
A 3 8
B 1 9
B 2 7
C 2 2
C 3 12
C 4 6
C 5 6
I need to create a numeric variable for firms
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encode firm, generate(codfirm)
list , nolabel
You could also:
egen codfirm=group(firm)
Hope this helps
Svend
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