Dear all,
I have a wide dataset organized as follows
date code1_varx code1_vary code2_varx code2_vary
1990 10 20 10 30
1991 10 20 10 30
...
Where: code1- code300 identify individuals and varx vary are the
varnames (I have 9 variables).
What I want is a long dataset that looks like this
date code varx vary
1990 1 10 20
1991 1 10 20
..
1990 2 10 30
1991 2 10 30
..
Using the reshape command hasn't worked for me so far because the stub
that identifies the name of the variable is at the end of it:
no xij variables found r(111);
I also tried to transpose the data using the "xpose" command to
manipulate the names but when you use "xpose" twice the string variables
are dropped,,,
I would really appreciate any suggestion on how to proceed,,,
Thank you very much,
Juanita Riano
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