st: filling in the gaps

[John Singhammer <singhammer@gmail.com>]

Dear statalister

I'm working on a dataset consisting of information on 45.000 school children
Data has been collected annually since 2009, though not for all children

Information on grade has been imported from a national register.
However, that information is only available up to the year 2011

Consequently, information on grade is missing for the year 2012 and 2013

The data look like this:

id	sch_year	grade
347246	2010	2
347246	2011	3
347246	2012	.
731909	2010	4
731909	2011	5
731909	2012	.
901302	2011	4
901302	2013	.


How do I fill in the blanks?... and how do I take care of the cases
where information is missing for an entire year (eg. id 901302)?

Note: A school year is calculated as beginning in august  and ending
in june the next year. Thus, the year 2011 begins august 2010 and ends
in june 2011.


Any advices would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
John Singhammer
University of Southern Denmark
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