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st: RE: Wide to Panel
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of ALICE DOBSON
> Sent: 17 October 2006 13:25
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Wide to Panel
>
>
> Hi all,
> I have a datafile containing an unabalanced panel of firms
> for a period of
> around 10 years. This file contains data on around five
> variables. I have
> procured additional data on around 15 firm-level variables
> for these set of
> firms. However, the problem is that each variable is in a
> different excel
> file and that too in a wide format. I can transfer these
> files into stata
> format using stat transfer. Could anyone please tell me if
> its possible to
> convert these multiple data files into one datafile in the
> panel format?
>
> Each individual file for a single variable looks like this.
> There are 15
> such files, one for each varible. The numberf of firms is too
> large and
> hence will take a lot of time to do by hand.
>
> FIRM 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
> 1992 1993 1994
>
> FIRM1 100 123 124 3001 293 324 512 413
> FIRM2
> FIRM3
> FIRM4
> :
> :
> :
> :
> FIRM1002
>
>
> Best,
> Alice
>
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