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Notice that we now have an observation for every worker in every year, although we know some workers are only observed in a subset of these. This is known as a **balanced panel**.

## 7.3 Generating Variables Using Extended Generate

The command `egen` is used whenever we want to create variables which require access to some functions (e.g. mean, standard deviation, min). The basic syntax works as follows:
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Notice that we now have an observation for every worker in every year, although we know some workers are only observed in a subset of these. This is known as a **balanced panel**.

To retrieve the original data set, we get rid of such observations with missing values.

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