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- Wed May 20, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Data Manipulation
- Topic: skipping a large number of observations
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Re: skipping a large number of observations
I don't think I can post the workfile, as it contains confidential tax information. It is a four-dimension panel workfile with 128399 obs. Here were the steps I used: 1) Took an alpha series which contained multiple entries with different names but the same information, and created a value map. 2) U...
- Tue May 19, 2009 2:22 pm
- Forum: Data Manipulation
- Topic: skipping a large number of observations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7100
Re: skipping a large number of observations
If you want to delete them, you can use the Page Contract tool to remove them from the workfile. If you just want to remove them from the sample, you can use if statements in your sample condition to remove them. Using page contract reverses the dimension of my panel workfile i.e. the dimension was...
- Tue May 19, 2009 12:27 pm
- Forum: Data Manipulation
- Topic: skipping a large number of observations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7100
skipping a large number of observations
I have a very large panel dataset. Due to some double-reporting, I need to skip or delete a large number of observations, where the only unique identifier is an alpha series. I tried assigning a value map and then using the smpl command, but this didn't work. Any suggestions on which approach to try...
