Further to my query below:
I just found that I have a number of missing and negative values. Is there anyway I can exclude these cases when I assign the country ranks?
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:42 am
Subject: st: panel data- assigning rank by country and year
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Hi,
> I am trying to assign ranks to country observations within
> years. By this I mean that I want to assign a score for each
> observation (within a country) within that specific year.
> So far, I have calculated:
> egen rank_var = rank(var) ---- this seems to provide ranks to
> countries, but does not take into account yearly changes.
> I tried:
> bysort year Count: egen rank_var= rank(var)--- but this does not
> seem to work either. Is this something to do with subscripting?
> Any suggestions would be most welcome.
> Thanks
>
>
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