Fabrizio,
I am not entirely sure why -fillin- doesn't work for you here:
.list
countryn year elecn
|--------------------|
| 1 1990 1 |
| 1 1994 2 |
| 1 1994 3 |
| 1 1997 4 |
| 2 1995 3 |
|--------------------|
| 2 1999 4 |
| 2 1992 2 |
| 2 1989 1 |
| 2 2000 5 |
+--------------------+
.fillin countryn year
|------------------------------|
| 1 1989 . 1 |
| 1 1990 1 0 |
| 1 1992 . 1 |
| 1 1994 3 0 |
| 1 1994 2 0 |
|------------------------------|
| 1 1995 . 1 |
| 1 1997 4 0 |
| 1 1999 . 1 |
| 1 2000 . 1 |
| 2 1989 1 0 |
|------------------------------|
| 2 1990 . 1 |
| 2 1992 2 0 |
| 2 1994 . 1 |
| 2 1995 3 0 |
| 2 1997 . 1 |
|------------------------------|
| 2 1999 4 0 |
| 2 2000 5 0 |
+------------------------------+
if you need data for 75-2002, I assume you have data on some country
for each year. If not, you add them for one country manually and then
-fillin-.
An alternative approach would be to use -merge- by creating country
and year data and merging it with your current data.
Am I missing something?
--Carole
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University of Texas at Dallas
School of Economic, Political,
and Policy Sciences
Phone: 972.883.4957
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