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Re: st: Partially balancing an unbalanced panel data set
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Partially balancing an unbalanced panel data set
Date
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:02:41 -0500
xtset com qu
tsfill
replace assets = (l.asset + f.asset)/2 if asset == .
Scott
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM, A Loumiotis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I have a panel dataset that contains quarterly balance sheets of
> corporations that belong to the Athens stock exchange (ASE) starting
> from the first quarter of 2006 and ending at the fourth quarter of
> 2009. This panel dataset is unbalanced because of two reasons.
> First, there are companies in the panel dataset that were listed in
> the (ASE) after the first quarter of 2006 or exited the ASE before the
> fourth quarter of 2009. Second data for some quarters data are
> missing for some companies although there were in the ASE. What I want
> to do is to partially balance this dataset so that it corrects the
> second reason that the panel set is unbalanced but not the first.
> Last I would like to fill in the missing values with the average of
> the previous and the next value.
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