Descriptive statistics for panel data - Users and not usermonths

[Alejandro J]

Hi, I apologise for an incredibly stupid question, but I'm new to STATA and I cannot seem to find my answer in the help file/online.

I have a long form panel with lots of monthly observations for each user. I want to create simple summary statistics but for each person and not each observation. How do I tell stata this?

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Alejandro (as per FAQ, full names are appreciated on this forum. Thanks):
you may want to take a look at -collapse-.

[Alejandro J]

Alejandro (as per FAQ, full names are appreciated on this forum. Thanks):
you may want to take a look at -collapse-.

Thank you. Regarding the usernames, I didn't realise this when I signed up but there seems to be no option in the setting to change my username.

[Nick Cox]

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