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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: tsset error codes |
| Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:40:46 +0000 |
What does "did not work" mean precisely? What did you type in Stata? What did Stata say in response? Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk William Hart Unfortunately, that did not work. I should add that each quarter has 3000-7000 observations; there not one row of data per quarter. I don't know if that makes a difference (very new at time series). Maarten Buis 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 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/