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BTW, there is nothing wrong with year being treated as "int". See -help
data types-: The years conventionally found in today´s datasets are well
within the range of the maximum and minimum for "int"...
HTH
Martin
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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Howard Lempel
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. März 2009 15:30
An: [email protected]
Betreff: st: RE: Problem importing data
Hi there,
You'll get a better answer if you give a bit more detail. Two things that
would be particularly helpful: 1) What exactly does your data look like? Is
"country" a string variable with the names of different countries? Or does
it consist of numbers that are codes for countries? 2) Exactly what
commands have you typed into Stata so far and exactly what error message did
you get?
That being said, you may want to take a look at -help encode-, which creates
a new variable giving assigning a unique number to each value of a string
variable. If your country variable already consists of numbers, -help
destring- will convert it to a numeric variable. Some non-numeric
characters may have found their way into your country variable, in which
case, you'll need to eliminate those before -destring-ing.
Once you convert country to a numeric variable, you should be able to
-xtset- your data, which tells Stata that your data is a panel and specifies
which variables contain your cross-sectional and time units.
Lastly, you might want to try importing your data using the Stata command
-xmluse- or saving your data as a CSV and using -insheet-.
Hope this helps.
Howie
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Lundgren
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Problem importing data
Hi all,
I am new to Stata (have been using Eviews earlier), and despite this
excellent forum I'm still having trouble getting my panel data right. I have
a "normal" panel so to speak, with "Country" in the first column, "Year" in
the second, and then the variables. When I try to get the data into Stata
from Excel by either Stattransfer or Copy/Paste, "Country" is all the time
being treated as a string variable, no matter what I do. Therefore, the
panel can't be estimated, i.e. I am getting an error message. "Year" is also
being treated as 'Int'. What am I doing wrong?
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