Re: st: Merge data for two panels in a panel data set

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

If this is just two firms, why is the answer not item1[41] +
item1[42], etc., where naturally you should insert the observation
numbers relevant?

Nick

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:35 PM, rado645-bg@yahoo.de
<rado645-bg@yahoo.de> wrote:

> I have two firms in a data set that merge at a given point of time. For a specific reason, I need to sum the observations over their balance sheet items in each period of time. Would that be possible in Stata?
>
>
> The dataset looks like that:
>
> Firm        Date    Item1    Item2    Item3
>
>
> Firm1     Date1   Item1    Item2    Item3
>
> Firm2      Date1   Item1     Item2    Item3
>
> Firm3      Date1  Item1    Item2     Item3
>
> ...so on.
>
> I would like to merge in each period of time the data for firm 1 and firm 2 so the dataset will look like that:
>
>
> The dataset looks like that:
>
> Firm                  Date     Item1  Item2  Item3
>
>
> Merged_Firms    Date1  Item1  Item2  Item3
>
> Firm3               Date1  Item1  Item2  Item3
>

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