st: generate observations by group/levels- aplologies if this message appears more than once -

["Rajesh Tharyan" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

Hi all,


I am trying the do the following. If I have a data set which looks like this

Co� ��year
A���� �1986
A����� 1999
B����� 1987

I want to say increase the observations for each company year by any number
of years I specify. Lets assume expanding by two years.

So the resulting dataset will look like

Co year

A 1986
A 1987
A 1988
A 1999
A 2000
A 2001
B 1987
B 1988
B 1989

I cant set obs or expand by a grouping variable.� I was then trying to split
each file into several files first based on levels of co and then levels of
year, then expand , fillinin missing values etc. But that route is making
the process unnecessarily complicated (I think)

Is there a more staright forward way to do this

Any help is valuable

Thanks
rajesh



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