Re: st: could you please verify the correctness of the code?-tsfill function

[stef salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com>]

thank you Nick. I really appreciate your help and your patience.
Let me be more explicit this time


I have a panel data set of prices of goods that vary across time and countries.

As you can see from the table below



 country  dates                price of good k



 1         "23/11/08"            2
1   "28/12/08"                   3
1    "25/01/09"                   4
1   "22/02/09"                   5
1    "29/03/09"                  6
1  "26/04/09"                   32
1  "24/05/09"                   23
1  "28/06/09"                   32
2   "26/10/08"                45
2  "23/11/08"                 46
2  "21/12/08"               90
2  "18/01/09"                54
2  "15/02/09"                 65
2   "16/03/09"               77
2  "12/04/09"                    7
2   "10/05/09"                   6







 the start and end date of the time series for countries 1 and 2 are
different. For example, for country 1 the time series begins on
"23/11/08"       while for country 2 the time series begins       on
"26-10-2008”.

My data on prices are available every 28 days (or equivalently every 4
weeks). But in some cases I have jumps (35 days or 29 days instead of
28 days). For example from the above table we have such jumps: from
"28/12/08"   to  "28/12/08"   , from 22/02/09"         to
"29/03/09", etc

My goal is to have as much as possible the same sequence of dates
across countries which is a bit difficult because of the two
“problems” that I mentioned above. I want to have the same sequence of
dates across countries because eventually what I want to do is see how
the difference of prices for,say good k,  between two countries
evolves over time. So I  want to set up the following regression





ΔP_{ij,t}_{k}= constant +regressors +error term where  ΔP_{ij,t } is
the difference of prices between  countries i and j in period t for
good k. The  ΔP_{t}_{k} is a vector  of difference of  prices for all
pairs of countries at time t for good k.
The whole point is to be able to run the above regression


My initial idea was to use  -tsfill- in the code which i display below
( and  which can be easily reproduced  with copy paste in stata):



clear all
cd D:\
input id  str8 (dates)    variable
 1         "23/11/08"            2
1   "28/12/08"                   3
1    "25/01/09"                   4
1   "22/02/09"                   5
1    "29/03/09"                  6
1  "26/04/09"                   32
1  "24/05/09"                   23
1  "28/06/09"                   32
2   "26/10/08"                45
2  "23/11/08"                 46
2  "21/12/08"               90
2  "18/01/09"                54
2  "15/02/09"                 65
2   "16/03/09"               77
2  "12/04/09"                    7
2   "10/05/09"                   6
end



gen edate1 = date(dates, "DM20Y")
 gen edate2= floor(edate1/28)
tsset id edate2
tsfill





But I  do not know if this approach is correct or not in order to be
able to run the above regression. Apart from tsfill I have no other
idea  how to run this regression. Any suggestions/codes are welcome.

thank you again

On 6/6/12, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your code does not run without correction. Apart from
>
> cd J:\
>
> which will not work if such a drive does not exist, you need to change
> -identif2- to -id-. But you could have checked the code yourself
> before posting it. Otherwise I don't know how to respond to your
> "feeling that something may not be correct".
>
> I guess you got no answers first time you posted this because people
> could not work out what you were asking.
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:45 PM, stef salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if someone could check the validity of the code.  If I
>> violate any rules I would be grateful to you if you could inform me
>> about it
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On 6/5/12, stef salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> ok
>>>
>>> On 6/5/12, stef salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a panel data set. These data are available every 28 days (or 4
>>>> weeks). But in some case I have jumps (35 days  instead of 28 days).
>>>> So I used tsfill in the code which i display below
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> clear all
>>>> cd J:\
>>>> input id  str8 (dates)    var
>>>>  1   "23/11/08"   2
>>>> 1   "28/12/08"  3
>>>> 1    "25/01/09"  4
>>>> 1   "22/02/09"   5
>>>> 1    "29/03/09"   6
>>>> 1  "26/04/09"   32
>>>> 1  "24/05/09"   23
>>>> 1  "28/06/09"   32
>>>> 2   "23/11/08"  45
>>>> 2  "28/12/08"   46
>>>> 2  "25/01/09"   90
>>>> 2  "22/02/09"  54
>>>> 2  "29/03/09"   65
>>>> 2   "26/04/09" 77
>>>> 2  "24/05/09"   7
>>>> 2   "28/06/09"  6
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gen edate1 = date(dates, "DM20Y")
>>>>  gen edate2= floor(edate1/28)
>>>> tsset identif2 edate2
>>>> tsfill
>>>>
>>>> I get no warnign sign which seems to be ok. But when I look at the
>>>> data editor  I have the feeling that something may not be correct:
>>>> So, I would like to ask if the above approach-code is correct
>>>>
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