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Re: st: Measuring Relative Time (wrt an Event)
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Measuring Relative Time (wrt an Event)
Date
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:50:40 -0400
Dana Shills <[email protected]>:
egen check=sum(Event), by(Panel)
assert check==1
egen eyr=max(Year*Event), by(Panel)
g RelTime=Year-eyr
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Dana Shills <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an unbalanced panel dataset and I want a variable that shows the time to an event happening. Here is how the data looks. Is there a neat way of creating the "Relative Time" variable without a huge code?
>
> Panel ID Year Event RelativeTime
> A 1996 0 t-4
> A 1998 0 t-2
> A 1999 0 t-1
> A 2000 1 t
> A 2004 0 t+4
> A 2005 0 t+5
>
> B 1999 0 t-6
> B 2000 0 t-5
> B 2001 0 t-4
> B 2003 0 t-2
> B 2005 1 t
> B 2006 0 t+1
>
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