Managing unbalanced panel data

[Anuradha Saikia]

Hello everyone.
In my dataset there are missing data for variable observations for some firms in my panel. In that case can I remove those years in which data is missing and keep the rest of the years for that firm which ahs data. It will turn to an unbalanced panel then. Which methods can I use to estimate from an unbalanced panel.

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Anurandha:
1) you do not have to remove anything, as Stata will do it for you (casewise/listwise deletion, you know);
2) there's no specifc advice on estimating coefficients of an unbalanced panel dataset. Just let Stata do its usual great job.

[Anuradha Saikia]

Thank you Carlo Lazzaro . for the case wise/ list wise deletion any specific command is required?

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Anurandha:
no, as Stata omits by default all the observations with missing values in any variable.

[Anuradha Saikia]

Okay got it now. Thanks for saving my life again.