"I have already tried to follow the advices from the FAQ "How can I take
random samples from an existing dataset?", but it does not work for me."
What did you try? In what sense did it not work?
Do you want to sample entire panels?
Nick
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I would like to do something that is pretty straight forward, but I do
not
have the stata skills to do this and would appreciate some help.
I have an unbalanced panel data set (almost 101.000 observations) which
is
too large to work with. The dataset looks like:
Id year y(dependent variable) x1 x2 x3 (many many
covariats)
1 2000
1 2001
1 2002
2 2003
2 2004
3 1998
3 1999
3 2000
3 2001
3 2002
3 2003
3 2004
3 2005
The dataset is already xtset with identifier (ID) and time (year).
Because
the original dataset is too large I would like to take a random
subsample
(containing of ca. 1000 observation) out of the original dataset. I have
already tried to follow the advices from the FAQ "How can I take random
samples from an existing dataset?", but it does not work for me.
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