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Re: st: issues with tsset based on more than a time variable and duplicates conflicting results
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: issues with tsset based on more than a time variable and duplicates conflicting results
Date
Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:28:31 +0000
A wild guess is to check for missing values on these variables, and
for rogue values of -mth- (missing, <1, >12).
Nick
[email protected]
On 20 January 2014 17:10, Abdalla, Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist
> I want to tsset my data based on permno yr mth:
> I tried - tsset permno yr mth - I get the error message "too many varaibles specified"
> I tried - gen firmid= group(permno)
> gen timeid = ym(yr, mth)
> tsset firmid timeid - I get the error " repeated time values with panel
> So I tried to investigate my duplicates :
> I run the command:
> duplicates report firmid timeid
> I get
> copies | observations surplus
> ----------+---------------------------
> 1 | 2181223 0
> 2 | 53712 26856
> 3 | 16515 11010
> 4 | 9556 7167
> 5 | 5510 4408
> 6 | 1698 1415
> 7 | 196 168
> 8 | 48 42
> 9 | 18 16
>
> I drop my duplicates and tsset my data, it works properly. But I though to investigate the duplicates again and run this code (of course before dropping my duplicates):
> duplicates report permno mth yr, I get:
>
> copies | observations surplus
> ----------+---------------------------
> 1 | 2268476 0
>
>
> Why both duplicates drop based on firmid and timeid versus permno yr mth are different though the firm id groups permno and the timeid groups yr and mth ?
> Is there any other way to tsset my data based on permno yr mth rather than the grouping I have done (firmid and timeid) ?
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> Thanks
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