Creating "GDP in 1960" variable from GDP variables for different years
- by Tom Smith
Hi all,
I'm pretty new to stata...
I have a set of observations of the form "Country GDP Year". I want to create a new variable GDP1960, which gives the GDP in 1960 of each country for each year:
USA $100m 1960 USA $100m 1960 $100m
USA $200m 1965 --> USA $200m 1965 $100m
Canada $60m 1960 Canada $60m 1960 $60m
What's the right syntax to make this happen? (I assume egen is involved in some mysterious way)