-help reshape-
--- Ann Edith Helfman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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