Hi,
I had a dataset on excel with regions on the rows and years on the columns.
I moved this data to Stata 10.1 MP(updated to the latest packages) and
was trying to reshaping from wide to long as I would like to have all
years' data of the same variable on the same column.
Below, I report an example of what I have:
regio prod1995 prod1996 .....prod2006
1 .... ... ...
2 ... ... ...
3 ... ... ...
4 ... ... ...
I would like to get:
regio years prod
1 1995 ...
1 1996 ...
..
2 1995 ...
..
3 1995 ...
..
4 1995 ...
..
The command I use is:
reshape long prod, i(regio) j(year)
It would appear a very easy task. Instead, the result I get is always
different (every time I launch the command) and never correct.
Stata drops many observations and many others become missing for some
variable (whereas my dataset has no missing value). I have also
checked that Stata considers data as numeric.
Thanks in advance,
Emanuele
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