Re: st: Identifying switchers in panel data

[njcoxstata@gmail.com]

Are you classifying one-step changes or households?

-tsspell- is from SSC.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 11 Sep 2013, at 14:54, Dana Shills <shills52@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am using an unbalanced panel dataset of 100,000 households which a status variables that takes values 0,1,2. Some households never switch status and some toggle between the three states. How do I identify how many switchers there are between each of these categories (0,1) (1,0) (0,2) (2,0) (1,2) (2,1). I have been trying to work with -tsspell - but it doesn't quite get me what I need.
> 
> Here is a sample of the data. 
> 
> ID    time    status
> 1    0    1
> 1    1    1
> 1    2    1
> 1    3    1
> 2    0    0
> 2    1    2
> 2    2    1
> 2    3    0
> 2    4    0
> 3    0    2
> 3    1    1
> 4    0    0
> 4    1    1
> 4    2    1
> 
> 

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