Re: st: How to add additional rows to a panel?

[Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com>]

Thanks Nick. It worked fine.

Actually - the objective of this exercise is very important: it is
designed to provide projections for policy makers

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only reason I can think of for doing this is so that you can type
> in extra data. If so, why not type in the extra data to a new dataset
> and then -append-? That is the least extra code I can imagine.
>
> You could also do something with -expand-. starting
>
> bysort id (time) : gen last = _n == _N
> expand 120 if last
>
> but then you still have work to do on every variable except -id-.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 14 August 2013 07:56, Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an unbalanced panel with 38,872 apartments and up to 114
>> periods. I would like to add 120 empty rows at the end of each panel.
>> I wonder what is the most efficient way to do this
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