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Re: st: tsset error codes
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: tsset error codes
Date
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:31:29 +0100
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, William Hart wrote:
> I am beginning an analysis of some Consumer Expenditure Survey data. I have quarterly data sets from 1996 through 2009. I have a variable called 'timevar' which is a sequential number unique to each quarter. I used the following code in an attempt to tsset the data:
>
> . gen newtime = q(1996q1) + timevar-1
try:
gen double newtime = q(1996q1) + timevar-1
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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