--- [email protected] wrote:
> How to reshape a data set from long form to wide form without using
> the command reshape?
>
> Say the data look like this
>
> HID PID INJDAM
> A 1 a
> A 2 b
> A 2 c
> B 1 b
> B 2 a
>
> where HID and PID represent household and personal ids respectively,
> and INJDAMC the damage type (eg, a=burns, b=bruising, c=..)in a
> person�s most recent injury.
>
> (Recently I am working on a data set from a remote access data
> library. The RADL receives STATA codes submitted by its users, it
> runs jobs and returns outputs via its web interface. For
> confidentiality reasons, not all the STATA commands are allowed in
> the RADL. One of these commands is reshape, we know reshape a
> dataset won�t reveal extra information though. I tried to program
> but failed. )
If that example is correct than "-reshape- not working" may not be due
to -reshape- not being allowed but due to the fact that PID is not
unique within HID.
-- Maarten
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