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Re: st: RE: replace missing values in different waves
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: RE: replace missing values in different waves
Date
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:12:03 +0000
bysort personnumber (Gender) : replace Gender = Gender[1]
would suffice here.
See also
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/replacing-missing-values/
Using -search missing- in Stata would have pointed you to this documentation.
Nick
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> my dataset looks like this:
>
>
> personnumber Gender different other variables
> 100 1
> 100 .
> 100 .
> 101 2
> 101 2
> 101 .
> 102 2
> 102 .
> 102 .
>
> for each person i have 3 waves in the dataset. now i want to replace the missing values (.) in with the value of the first wave. (e.g. 1 for person 100, 2 for person 101, 2 for person 3).
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