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I wonder how to reduce a sample to observe only individuals who appear in four quarters within four years. Im using Eviews 9.

You'll have to define what you mean by "appear in four quarters in four years".

I am working with quarters, I have twenty quarters and the same individual appear in one, two, three or four quarters maximum. I want to observe only those who appear in four quarters since I am not interested in individuals who appear in less

I was looking at how I could do dummy variables that would throw me 1 if that individual is in four quarters and 0 if he is not in four quarters. or I do not know what else can be done

Still not clear. If you have 20 quarters - that's 5 years, yet you said 4 years?

And you want individuals that have any four quarters, or four consecutive?


Also, what's an individual?

EViews Gareth wrote:Still not clear. If you have 20 quarters - that's 5 years, yet you said 4 years?

And you want individuals that have any four quarters, or four consecutive?


Also, what's an individual?

Yes, I got confused, it's 5 years.
I want individuals that have any four quarters.
The individuals are the surveyed households, which in the photo are shown in the variable "a5" where a code is designated for each household. sorry but I dont speak English and I dont handle the eviews well

Hello,

I believe the following accomplishes what you want:

It works. Thanks!!