Mr. Nichols,
Thanks for your assistance. I am not averse to wasting away my life at the
computer to get this work done. LOL! I am, however, not very much
interested in spending life after death working with ArcGIS when Stata can
handle the job more immediately. I jest.
I'll try to be both clear and succinct. Regarding your comment on my first
and second question in the previous post, what I need at this point is a
.dta file that in the end will look similar to the output your 2007 example
gave: that is, I would like to display my centroid variables (the xy
coordinates and the nhgis gisjoin field) and its distance to nearest school
of each type/sector/control level. This might have to be done for each
dataset separately, but ultimately I'd like to merge the eight years of data
into one .dta file. As there are nine different school types and one
general school variable with all types combined, I should end up with 80
variables that show, for example, the distance to nearest postsec school
from each centroid for year 2000, or the distance to nearest proprietary
2-year school from each centroid for year 2005.
That is the basic file I need. Ultimately, I want something like this
(there would be no blanks in the real data, of course):
idvar gisjoin state distpub01 distpriv01 distprop01
... distpub07 distpub06
1 G0101000000001 AK 10.34 60.39
1993
16983
38151
45999 G2603499490300 MI 16.63
50019
54213
60811
63009
63059 G4203939848847 TX 8.91
8.34
