I have GSS data from multiple waves ie years for the same regions in the US.

When I look at the dataset, the id numbers restart from 1 for every consecutive year, but different people are asked, so I want to renumber the IDs from 1 in the first year of the data I have, increasing, to the last. (so that they do not restart in the next year) How do I go about doing this? Is there a way of coding that?

Also if the same questions are asked for the same regions but to different people, over time, can this be treated as panel data?