sorry, I did take a look, but the online help doesn't give me the answer,
neither the FAQ. I'll try to figure out.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: st: RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: panel data command
> Now come on please. There is on-line help
> on -reshape-. There are FAQs on -reshape-.
> Possibly, you have access to the manual
> and thus [R] reshape. All these give
> answers.
>
> Sorry, but your question is not an
> appropriate use of Statalist. Please
> learn to help yourself first.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of is300gp
> > Sent: 28 July 2004 23:32
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: st: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: panel data command
> >
> >
> > So for reshape to work, all the to-be-reshaped variables got
> > to have the
> > same prefix, e.g. part or wage and time is automatically determined by
> > stata, is this correct? then what are the acceptable suffix,
> > is part1 and
> > partt acceptable?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Gang
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:52 PM
> > Subject: st: Re: Re: RE: Re: panel data command
> >
> >
> > > reshape long part wage, i(id) j(time)
> > >
> > > After you see the power of reshape (and many other Stata
> > features), you
> > > probably will want to rethink how much you want to use
> > Excel in managing,
> > or
> > > working with, data ;)
> > >
> > > Michael Blasnik
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "is300gp" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:42 PM
> > > Subject: st: Re: RE: Re: panel data command
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thanks a lot, both of these work. Great!
> > > >
> > > > If you two don't mind, I'd like to ask a related question: how to
> > convert
> > > > the matched cross sectional data into standard panel in stata?
> > > >
> > > > I used to do this in excel as well, and everytime I
> > change the varaible
> > > > list, I have to change the code in excel, very tedious.
> > > >
> > > > Say, I used id to match two datasets from two period, I
> > have id, part1,
> > > and
> > > > wage1 in data set one, and id, part2 and wage2 in dataset
> > 2; after the
> > > > matching, I have id, part1, wage1, part2 and wage2 as a
> > cross-sectional
> > > > dataset, then from here, what should I do to convert this
> > format into
> > the
> > > > standard two year panel stata format? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gang
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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