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st: Re: how to list variables vertically


From   Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: how to list variables vertically
Date   Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:49:55 -0800 (PST)

Stefan,

You don't need Excel, you can transpose the data in Stata. Type
-xpose, clear- and then -list- the data. Note that -xpose- will lead
to the loss of all data held as strings.

Friedrich Huebler

--- LACHENMAIER <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this might be a very simple question, but I have not found a
> solution
> yet.
> 
> Is it possible to create a list or table with the variables
> appearing
> vertically and the observations horizontally?
> 
> The output should look like 
> 
>       Observ1 Observ2 Observ3
> Var1   xx1     xx2     xx3      
> Var2   yy1     yy2     yy3                  
> Var3   zz1     zz2     zz3
> 
> 
> This type of presenting the data would be very useful to compare
> two
> observations. Of course one can do it by copying the data to Excel
> and
> transpose the data, but this gets very inconvenient if the number
> of
> variables is larger than the number of columns in Excel (one has to
> paste it first horizontally before one can transpose it).
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Stefan

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