Hi,
After data manipulation, I have a data set with multiple observations per year. I used total to sum over these observations to get collapse the data, but realized that the process was replacing missing values with zeroes.
year accounts accounts_total
district 1 72 . 0
district 1 72 . 0
district 1 72 . 0
district 1 72 . 0
district 1 73 . 0
district 1 73 . 0
district 1 73 . 0
district 1 74 10 34
district 1 74 20 34
district 1 74 4 34
district 1 75 15 32
district 1 75 17 32
In my case, accounts data is missing for the first few years. How can I ensure that when I take the total by year, accounts_total = . for year = 72 and year = 73? Currently, STATA has accounts_total = 0 for those years.
If there isn't a specific command, I can try and use the method suggested by Nick Cox in 2005 in this thread: Egen functions - preserving missing values?
Thanks.
Sinduja
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