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Glenn Wingard
> This may be an elementary question, but i'm completely new to
> stata and hope
> someone can help.
> I have a data-set in excel which lists countries in the first
> column and
> years in the first row like so:
>
> Country Name 1960 1961 1962 1963
> Afghanistan 4.13 4.45 4.88 9.17
> Albania .. .. .. ..
> Algeria 38.75 45.90 19.65 24.50
> American Samoa .. .. .. ..
> Andorra .. .. .. ..
> Angola .. .. .. ..
> Antigua .. .. .. ..
> Argentina 7.60 5.99 4.69 7.89
> Armenia .. .. .. ..
> Aruba .. .. .. ..
> Australia 14.24 15.79 14.74 16.84
> Austria 23.69 23.39 24.25 24.48 ..
>
> I want to insheet this into stata in a panel format like so:
>
> country year POP openc
> Aruba 1960 -999 -999
> Aruba 1961 -999 -999
> Aruba 1962 -999 -999
> Aruba 1963 -999 -999
> Andorra 1960 -999 -999
> Andorra 1961 -999 -999
> Andorra 1962 -999 -999
> Afghanistan 1960 -999 -999
> Afghanistan 1961 -999 -999
> Afghanistan 1962 -999 -999
> Afghanistan 1963 -999 -999
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