st: re: time variable with gaps

[Kit Baum <BAUM@BC.EDU>]

country  year   var 1       var 2    var 3      var 4
 .         .
 .         .
AUS	1986   4.621401	3.546704	2.339785	-.0403954
AUS	1993   1.197454	3.683009	2.367061	.0228291
AUT	1987   2.860833	4.249761	2.049111	.0111748
AUT	1994   1.087343	4.330157	2.086045	 -.04415
BEL	1979   5.283737	4.885247	2.109486	-.0124152
BEL	1985   3.148579	4.909156	2.149084	.0037365
BEL	1992   2.223942	4.897898	2.208274	-.0008712
BGD	1963   11.59548	3.013667	-.1875351	-.0035743
BGD	1973   31.88276	2.874345	.247641	-.00466


this is just part of my dataset. How can I solve and reshape data in  
order
to apply DPD?



bysort country: gen t = _n
tsset country t
xtabond2 ...

assuming you're willing to consider subsequent observations to be  
'evenly spaced' in some sense of the term.



Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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