Hi,

I am doing a FE and RE Regression and I am not sure if I should use Time Dummies (i.date) or a linear time trend (c.date).

Code:
xtreg BEVsalesshare2 $varying $invariant i.date, fe vce(cluster county)

Fixed-effects (within) regression               Number of obs     =      1,296
Group variable: county                          Number of groups  =         18

R-sq:                                           Obs per group:
     within  = 0.8461                                         min =         72
     between = 0.5139                                         avg =       72.0
     overall = 0.4984                                         max =         72

                                                F(20,17)          =          .
corr(u_i, Xb)  = -0.8236                        Prob > F          =          .

                                (Std. Err. adjusted for 18 clusters in county)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             |               Robust
BEVsalessh~2 |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
       HOVkm |   .0035468   .0009032     3.93   0.001     .0016412    .0054524
       NTPKM |   1.457356   .5944069     2.45   0.025     .2032672    2.711445
       NFPKM |  -.0001876   .0002327    -0.81   0.431    -.0006786    .0003034
   lCHRoadKm |   .0003344   .0001517     2.20   0.042     .0000143    .0006546
     DGPrice |   1.457764   1.039166     1.40   0.179    -.7346851    3.650213
 EnergyPrice |   .0000216   .0000378     0.57   0.575    -.0000582    .0001015
  Arbeitslos |   .0156132   .0080518     1.94   0.069    -.0013746    .0326009
        AVKT |    .000037   .0000282     1.31   0.207    -.0000225    .0000966
   Einkommen |   7.03e-07   9.98e-07     0.70   0.491    -1.40e-06    2.81e-06
   KuestenKm |          0  (omitted)
    MuMShare |          0  (omitted)
        Temp |          0  (omitted)
             |
        date |
        613  |  -.2939739   .2121634    -1.39   0.184    -.7415996    .1536518
        614  |  -.9261776   .6646269    -1.39   0.181    -2.328418    .4760626
        615  |  -1.207906    .861059    -1.40   0.179    -3.024582    .6087697
        616  |  -.9949058    .710164    -1.40   0.179    -2.493221    .5034093
        617  |  -1.020068   .7257672    -1.41   0.178    -2.551303    .5111668
        618  |  -1.027555   .7295912    -1.41   0.177    -2.566858    .5117477
        619  |  -.8171673   .5847958    -1.40   0.180    -2.050979    .4166441
        620  |  -.6837897   .4917226    -1.39   0.182    -1.721234    .3536543
        621  |  -.6799051   .4899869    -1.39   0.183    -1.713687    .3538769
        622  |  -.7046242   .5125549    -1.37   0.187     -1.78602    .3767721
        623  |  -.6535136    .470383    -1.39   0.183    -1.645935    .3389078
        624  |  -1.313945   .9263289    -1.42   0.174    -3.268328     .640438
        625  |  -1.623553   1.146794    -1.42   0.175    -4.043077    .7959706
        626  |  -1.858993   1.315581    -1.41   0.176    -4.634626    .9166396
        627  |   -2.22194   1.575141    -1.41   0.176    -5.545197    1.101316
        628  |  -1.514201   1.070677    -1.41   0.175    -3.773132    .7447305
        629  |  -1.019642   .7174562    -1.42   0.173    -2.533342    .4940579
        630  |  -.9345289   .6548755    -1.43   0.172    -2.316195    .4471376
        631  |  -1.403574   .9984869    -1.41   0.178    -3.510197    .7030493
        632  |  -1.823847      1.306    -1.40   0.181    -4.579265    .9315715
        633  |  -1.473502   1.045445    -1.41   0.177    -3.679199    .7321946
        634  |  -.9520076   .6716685    -1.42   0.174    -2.369104     .465089
        635  |  -.7893453   .5522139    -1.43   0.171    -1.954415    .3757241
        636  |  -1.031465   .7057578    -1.46   0.162    -2.520484    .4575538
        637  |  -1.326484   .9191686    -1.44   0.167     -3.26576    .6127924
        638  |  -1.241148   .8566794    -1.45   0.166    -3.048584    .5662872
        639  |  -.8768857   .5970589    -1.47   0.160     -2.13657    .3827985
        640  |  -1.009364    .690045    -1.46   0.162    -2.465231     .446504
        641  |  -1.062054   .7318846    -1.45   0.165    -2.606196    .4820875
        642  |  -1.513326   1.047113    -1.45   0.167     -3.72254    .6958884
        643  |  -1.677617   1.184271    -1.42   0.175    -4.176211    .8209776
        644  |  -1.772249   1.263255    -1.40   0.179    -4.437484    .8929865
        645  |  -1.589766    1.12864    -1.41   0.177    -3.970989    .7914568
        646  |  -1.313958   .9574884    -1.37   0.188    -3.334082     .706166
        647  |   -1.38575   1.006986    -1.38   0.187    -3.510305    .7388046
        648  |  -1.681797   1.192454    -1.41   0.176    -4.197656    .8340617
        649  |  -1.570769   1.127175    -1.39   0.181      -3.9489    .8073629
        650  |  -1.249355   .9409421    -1.33   0.202     -3.23457    .7358591
        651  |  -1.152704   .8185926    -1.41   0.177    -2.879784    .5743752
        652  |  -1.534667   1.093846    -1.40   0.179     -3.84248    .7731458
        653  |  -1.360255    .979134    -1.39   0.183    -3.426047    .7055375
        654  |  -1.759904   1.262651    -1.39   0.181    -4.423864    .9040554
        655  |  -1.617958   1.178995    -1.37   0.188    -4.105421    .8695047
        656  |  -1.393409   .9957378    -1.40   0.180    -3.494232    .7074141
        657  |  -.9588679   .6830983    -1.40   0.178    -2.400079    .4823435
        658  |  -.9905187   .7153963    -1.38   0.184    -2.499873    .5188354
        659  |  -.1240522   .0973825    -1.27   0.220    -.3295112    .0814069
        660  |  -.0512563   .0597748    -0.86   0.403      -.17737    .0748574
        661  |   .3494894   .2271063     1.54   0.142    -.1296629    .8286418
        662  |  -.1340338   .1525497    -0.88   0.392    -.4558856     .187818
        663  |  -.5874017   .4276434    -1.37   0.187     -1.48965     .314847
        664  |   .0913795   .0551258     1.66   0.116    -.0249259    .2076848
        665  |  -.8334221    .621054    -1.34   0.197    -2.143732    .4768874
        666  |  -1.008883   .7212533    -1.40   0.180    -2.530595     .512828
        667  |   .1646014   .0987002     1.67   0.114    -.0436379    .3728406
        668  |   .3036344   .1969627     1.54   0.142    -.1119206    .7191894
        669  |   .4383204   .3030653     1.45   0.166    -.2010915    1.077732
        670  |   .4428938   .3001054     1.48   0.158    -.1902732    1.076061
        671  |    .806903   .5671724     1.42   0.173    -.3897263    2.003532
        672  |   .9135457   .6428917     1.42   0.173    -.4428371    2.269929
        673  |   1.648068   1.173547     1.40   0.178    -.8279002    4.124037
        674  |   .6626571   .4521357     1.47   0.161    -.2912657     1.61658
        675  |   .8644334   .6236019     1.39   0.184    -.4512516    2.180118
        676  |     .95344    .708503     1.35   0.196    -.5413708    2.448251
        677  |   .1065229   .0872987     1.22   0.239    -.0776612    .2907069
        678  |   .0950838   .1061755     0.90   0.383    -.1289269    .3190944
        679  |    .630049   .4534669     1.39   0.183    -.3266824     1.58678
        680  |   .8275755    .573103     1.44   0.167    -.3815662    2.036717
        681  |   .9732132   .7018173     1.39   0.183    -.5074919    2.453918
        682  |   .3737313   .2477754     1.51   0.150    -.1490292    .8964918
        683  |          0  (omitted)
             |
       _cons |  -19.84632   13.11662    -1.51   0.149    -47.51997    7.827334
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
     sigma_u |  .08053934
     sigma_e |  .02521736
         rho |  .91071741   (fraction of variance due to u_i)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can see that my individual Time dummies are insignificant, so I wanted to check for the jointly significance of the Time Dummies with a normal F.Test, but I can see that a lot of constraints are dropped.

What does this mean?

Is the joint test result still significant and I should therefore use Time dummies instead of a Time Trend?


Code:
. testparm i.date

 ( 1)  613.date = 0
 ( 2)  614.date = 0
 ( 3)  615.date = 0
 ( 4)  616.date = 0
 ( 5)  617.date = 0
 ( 6)  618.date = 0
 ( 7)  619.date = 0
 ( 8)  620.date = 0
 ( 9)  621.date = 0
 (10)  622.date = 0
 (11)  623.date = 0
 (12)  624.date = 0
 (13)  625.date = 0
 (14)  626.date = 0
 (15)  627.date = 0
 (16)  628.date = 0
 (17)  629.date = 0
 (18)  630.date = 0
 (19)  631.date = 0
 (20)  632.date = 0
 (21)  633.date = 0
 (22)  634.date = 0
 (23)  635.date = 0
 (24)  636.date = 0
 (25)  637.date = 0
 (26)  638.date = 0
 (27)  639.date = 0
 (28)  640.date = 0
 (29)  641.date = 0
 (30)  642.date = 0
 (31)  643.date = 0
 (32)  644.date = 0
 (33)  645.date = 0
 (34)  646.date = 0
 (35)  647.date = 0
 (36)  648.date = 0
 (37)  649.date = 0
 (38)  650.date = 0
 (39)  651.date = 0
 (40)  652.date = 0
 (41)  653.date = 0
 (42)  654.date = 0
 (43)  655.date = 0
 (44)  656.date = 0
 (45)  657.date = 0
 (46)  658.date = 0
 (47)  659.date = 0
 (48)  660.date = 0
 (49)  661.date = 0
 (50)  662.date = 0
 (51)  663.date = 0
 (52)  664.date = 0
 (53)  665.date = 0
 (54)  666.date = 0
 (55)  667.date = 0
 (56)  668.date = 0
 (57)  669.date = 0
 (58)  670.date = 0
 (59)  671.date = 0
 (60)  672.date = 0
 (61)  673.date = 0
 (62)  674.date = 0
 (63)  675.date = 0
 (64)  676.date = 0
 (65)  677.date = 0
 (66)  678.date = 0
 (67)  679.date = 0
 (68)  680.date = 0
 (69)  681.date = 0
 (70)  682.date = 0
       Constraint 1 dropped
       Constraint 2 dropped
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       Constraint 69 dropped

       F( 20,    17) = 3.5e+06
            Prob > F =    0.0000

Thanks a lot for your help

Cheers
Alex