st: Creating panel data?

[Ann Edith Helfman <ahelfman@fas.harvard.edu>]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Stata (I have Stata 9) and would like to know whether 
there is a way to rearrange the following:

WHAT I HAVE: In Data Editor, my first column lists all of the countries 
under a "country" variable.  Each column after that is a "year" variable 
 ("1984" through "2000") with the appropriate value for each country.

WHAT I NEED: The data needs to be sorted by country and year.  In other 
words, I should see first column "country," second column "year," and 
third column those values.

In other words, I need to create panel data with each country having 
multiple entries by year.  I wouldn't mind doing this in Excel either, 
if that works better.

I would greatly appreciate any help with this!

Thank you-

~Ann
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