Re: st: summarizing data over 3 or 5 year periods for macro panel data.

[John Luke Gallup <jlgallup@pdx.edu>]

Manhal,

If I understand correctly, you are trying to get just one, rather than 3 observations for each group.

Here are two methods:

1. collapse my mx, by(id idthird)

instead of 

bysort id idthird: egen my = mean(y)

2.

bysort id idthird: egen my = mean(y)
by id idthird: gen firstobs = (_n==1)
keep if firstobs

John

John Luke Gallup
Department of Economics
Portland State University

On Jul 19, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Manhal Mohammad Ali wrote:

> Dear Stata users,
> 
> For macro panel data sets (where N is not so big and T is moderate),
> researchers and academics summarize or average data over certain
> number of periods for example 3 or 5 or 10 for example in growth
> econometrics.
> 
> I have a panel data from 1980 to 2009 for 39 countries and I want to
> average my data over a 3 or 5 year periods for the variables y and x
> to then do regression of average y for  3 or 5 year periods on average
> x for 3 or 5 year period. My variables y and x are gdp and inflation.
> This is what is I did so far for a 3 year period example
> 
> egen idthird = seq(), block(3)
> bysort id idthird: egen my = mean(y). Similarly for variable x.
> 
> This gives me then a "3 independent years groups averages". Then I
> want to regress  3 period mean or average of y, my on the  3 period
> average of mx.
> 
> But this is the type of data I get (I did not put values for y and x
> for simplicity)
> Country	year	idthird	my	mx	y	x
> a	       1980	  1	        2.5	1.9
> b	       1981	  1      	2.5	1.9
> c	       1982	  1       	2.5	1.9
> d	       1983	  2	        2.8	1.3
> e              1984	  2	        2.8	1.3
> f	       1985	  2	        2.8	1.3
> g	       1986	  3	        1.6	1.3
> 
> where 2.5 is the average of the first three years for variable my and
> 1.9 is the average for the first three years for variable mx.
> 
> Now how can I regress the average of y for 3 periods, my on mx, the
> average of variable x for 3 periods  given that the above data now
> looks the one above.
> 
> You can clearly see what the problem is -  there is three 2.5 values
> which is average for first three years then there is average of 2.8
> for next three years and so on for variable my and similarly for
> variable mx. Shouldn’t there be one entry of 2.5 for the first group 1
> (1980 -1982) then 2.8 for the next group 2 (1983-1985) for variable my
> and similarly for variable mx.
> 
> My basic problem and question is how to generate a sequence of
> variables summarized over 3 ot 5 periods and the do regression using
> those new averaged variables. I would really appreciate your kind help
> as I am doing an MSc dissertation and I am little running back
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Manhal Ali
> University of Bristol.
> 
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