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st: Merging w/ substituting for years with missing values
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Leoni Linek <[email protected]>
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st: Merging w/ substituting for years with missing values
Date
Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:24:39 +0200
I'm merging two panel datasets (A and B), one of which has few years (A,
I only need those), while the other has observations for many years (B)
-- but also has missing values for some of them. As most of the
variables that have missing values don't change a lot, I want to tell
STATA to use values from previous or following years (from B) if they're
missing for the exact year I need (those in A). This sounds rather messy
but is there an elegant way of doing this in STATA?
Any help is much appreciated.
Leoni
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