I think David means -reshape long-. These data
are already wide.
For the renaming, consider -renpfix-.
By the way, apologies for premature empty postings
in this and sometimes other threads. I can't
work yet whether the issue is mailer, keyboard
or PICNIC (problem in chair, not in computer).
Nick
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David Kantor
>
> Start by Stat/Transferring these into Stata.
>
> But your column names of "1985", "1986" , etc. will get rendered as,
> I believe, "_1985", "_1986", etc..
>
> Each of those needs to be further renamed to have a common prefix
> that is distinct for the given table. Presumably, each table is one
> variable, so the prefix should correspond to that variable. Thus, if
> the table is "number of employees" you should rename the variables
> something like
> nemp1985, nemp1986, etc.
> If your table is about revenue, then name them rev1985, rev1985, etc.
>
> (You could, alternatively, change the column names in the Excel
> tables. But in any case, for the transfer to go smoothly, the Excel
> tables need to be "clean" -- have just the column names in the first
> row, and the data in all subsequent rows.)
>
> Do this for each table.
> Then you will want to merge all the tables together.
>
> Presumably you also want to -reshape wide-. That could come before
> or after the merge.
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