> Quoting Carol Bao <[email protected]>:
>
> > Hi, I am asking this for a friend:
> >
> > She has a data set in its wide form like this:
> >
> > ID Wave1 Wave2 Wave3 ASMOK BSMOK CSMOK
> > 1 0 1 1 . 1 0
> > 2 1 1 0 1 0 .
> >
> > Which reads: for person 1, he/she appears in wave 2
> > and wave 3 of the survey and reports to smoke in wave
> > 2 (BSMOK) and not smoke in wave 3 (CSMOK). For person
> > 2, he/she is interviewed in wave 1 and 2 but drops out
> > in wave 3 and reports to smoke in wave 1 and not in
> > wave 2.
> >
> > The question is, the stub for reshape into variable
> > SMOK appears at the beginning of the variables as A, B
> > and C respectively for three waves (all the other
> > variables as well). Is there any easier way to
> > reshape the data? Or any suggestions?
> >
My inital thought was this could probably be achieved using -renvars-
might be of use here, but whilst its does many things with both
prefixes and suffixes, I couldn't see how to use it to achieve this.
A quick hack resulted in the following code which should be easily
adaptable to the original problem....
clear
* Generate some variables with prefix stubs
set obs 10
foreach x in a b c d e f{
gen `x'something = .
}
describe
* Now rename them so that the stub is at the end
unab orig: *something
foreach x in `orig'{
local y: subinstr local x "something" ""
rename `x' something`y'
}
describe
HTH's
Neil
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