Suppose you have panel data (many observations for each person) and you have a discrete ordered outcome for worker status (entry level, assistant, manager, exit labor force) that you want to model transitions between as a function of time-fixed and time-varying covariates. For example based on covariates, what is probability of an assistant becoming a manager at the next time step. I wish to model this type of data in Stata but am not sure if there is such a way to do it to account for the repeated observations. I have tried using xtset ID or cluster vce ID but they all give different result and some of the probabilities simply don't make sense. For example in some cases the probability of going from "exit labor force" to "assistant" is more than 20% even though there are no transitions like this in the model. Finally- some people tell me this is a markov problem but that assumes the time in each worker status does not matter but it does so i am wondering how to account for these different aspects.

Any advice would be very useful at this time.