Generate time value with year and quarter and xtset

[Lenny Tran]

I have 3 variable
variable year with value from 2000-2010
variable quarter with value from 1-4
variable country with the name of the country
i use the command like this

gen time = yq(year,quarter)
format time %tq
encode country, gen(name)
xtset name time

correct, right ?

[Nick Cox]

Seems fine on this evidence.

[Lenny Tran]

Seems fine on this evidence.

because its works fine with xtreg, fe ,.... that I thinks i am right, but im searching in the forum and havenot seen anyone generate the time value like I do

[Nick Cox]

I have seen that often -- and recommended it myself many, many times. I can't comment on your modelling choice. As you're talking about assignments for a course, you are in a grey area here, as Carlo Lazzaro flagged separately. . I'll answer peripheral questions like this, however.

[Lenny Tran]

I have seen that often -- and recommended it myself many, many times. I can't comment on your modelling choice. As you're talking about assignments for a course, you are in a grey area here, as Carlo Lazzaro flagged separately. . I'll answer peripheral questions like this, however.

No, i dont ask about the model,
Im just asking with my code, stata would recognized my data as data panel, right ?

[Nick Cox]

Same question, same answer: Yes.