You might try an alternative specification of the j index on -reshape-.
Here is a little data set:
. list, clean noobs
id var1_00 var1_01 var1_88 var1_89 var2_00 var2_01 var2_88 var2_89
1 11 13 12 3 4 6 67 8
2 9 6 14 5 10 2 18 3
3 13 4 11 2 15 8 8 7
. reshape long var1_ var2_, i(id) j(year 00 01 88 89)
Data wide -> long
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of obs. 3 -> 12
Number of variables 9 -> 4
j variable (4 values) -> year
xij variables:
var1_00 var1_01 ... var1_89 -> var1_
var2_00 var2_01 ... var2_89 -> var2_
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
. li, clean noobs
id year var1_ var2_
1 0 11 4
1 1 13 6
1 88 12 67
1 89 3 8
2 0 9 10
2 1 6 2
2 88 14 18
2 89 5 3
3 0 13 15
3 1 4 8
3 88 11 8
3 89 2 7
That is to say, _you_ may specify the values of the subobservation index rather
than allow Stata to try and determine them - unsuccesfully on this occasion, as
you discovered.
Phil
Quoting Jeppe Warberg Larsen <[email protected]>:
> I have a wide data structure. Each observation consists of a unique
> identifier (say, id) and some series of annual variables with a
> two-digit suffix (running in different intervals). Like this:
>
> id var1_88 var1_89 ... var1_02 var2_92 var2_93 ... var2_02
> var3_...................................
>
> Now I want to reshape it to long, but stata fails to read the
> two-digit values after the turn of century (00 01 02), so I need to
> rename all varibles to a four-digit year.
>
> foreach var of varlist var1_88-var100_02{
> //save name of variable in a local string
> //do nessecary string manipulation (I can do that)
> //rename var
> }
>
> My problem seems to be:
> 1) extracting the name of the current variable
> 2) rename
>
> Do you understand what I'm asking?
> I'd be glad if someone can help, and please don't tell me that it
> would be easier to do this manually, because I will need to do this
> operation many times...
>
> Jeppe W. Larsen
>
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