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Re: st: calculating differences in variables in Longitudinal Data
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Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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Re: st: calculating differences in variables in Longitudinal Data
Date
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:21:18 +0200
You could omit "bys company:"
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> I see, perhaps xtset wold be better. Try this
>
> egen panel_id=group(Company)
> xtset panel_id year
> forvalues i=1/54{
> gen diff`i'=.
> bys company:replace diff`i'=S2.var`i' if year==2011
> }
> Abhimanyu
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Alexander Zoran Dozet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great! Thank you for your the speddy help!
>> However I run into some difficulties when some of the values are missing for some observations.
>>
>> I get the error message:
>>
>>
>> "nothing found where name expected"
>> r(198);
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to handle that?
>>
>> Again, thank you!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Alexander Dozet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----
>> Från: Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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>> Kopia:
>> Skickat: måndag, 9 april 2012 21:36
>> Ämne: Re: st: calculating differences in variables in Longitudinal Data
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I would do it as follows
>>
>> tsset year
>> forvalues i=1/54{
>> gen diff`i'=.
>> bys company:replace diff`i'=S2.var`i' if year==2011
>> }
>>
>> Cheers
>> Abhimanyu
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Alexander Zoran Dozet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Statausers,
>>>
>>> I have a small problem
>>> that I suppose is easy to resolve if one knows the ansewer. Although it
>>> probably is basic, I have tried to solve it by searching the internet
>>> and hitting the books, I have not succeded in finding an answer.
>>>
>>> I have a dataset that looks like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> Company Year Variable1 Variable2 Variable3.........Variable54
>>>
>>> Company1 2009 60 70 80
>>> Company1 2010 65 72 81
>>>
>>> Company1 2011 67 71 85
>>>
>>> Company2 2009 85 80 70
>>>
>>> Company2 2010 75 85 78
>>>
>>> Company2 2011 77 88 76
>>>
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> Company154
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope the displayed data structure is kept in this e-mail.
>>> Each company is occuring one time each year for each variable in the data
>>> set (panel data). My variable Company is in string form. I have not
>>> declared my dataset to be panel data. String is not allowed as an
>>> identifier.
>>>
>>> I want to examine the difference between the
>>> year 2010 and 2011 for each company and for each variable and to create a new variable for each of the differences for
>>> example diffVar1, diffVar2,....
>>>
>>> I would be much grateful for any help!
>>>
>>> Best regards and cheers
>>> Alexander Dozet
>>>
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