--- Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wanted to ask how I can eliminate individuals from a panel that
> have missings for certain years. The xtdescribe command gives me the
> patterns, and I want to drop those individuals that have a pattern
> with dots in it (like 1.11..).
Here is a not very elegant solution:
*--------- begin example -----------------------
webuse nlswork, clear
gen nofill = 1
fillin idcode year
bys idcode (nofill) : gen filled = missing(nofill[_N])
tab filled
drop if filled
*------------- end example ----------------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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