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Re: st: AW: Reshape
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Elena Quercioli <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: AW: Reshape
Date
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:27:33 +0200
Thank you, Martin, so much for you help on this. I am a new Stata
user. To answer your question about my need for a wide format: I want
to run a regression treating my dataset as a panel. For the egen group
command suggestion you made, can you please clarify. I am a little
confused about the sequence of commands there. Elena
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> BTW, Elena, it is rare for Stata users to -reshape wide-, b/c Stata just
> loves the long format. What is it that you can do with the wide format that
> you cannot do with the long one?
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Elena Quercioli
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. September 2010 10:56
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: Reshape
>
> I have a dataset with multiple identifiers(id2 and id). Here is an
> example of it:
>
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> | id year x county vars varlabel id2 |
>
> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |
> 1. | 1 1979 790 1 suic suic 1 |
> 2. | 1 1980 4.823 1 suic suic 2 |
> 3. | 1 1981 2.560 1 suic suic 3 |
> 4. | 1 1982 1.890 1 suic suic 4 |
> 5. | 1 1983 1.137 1 suic suic 5 |
> 6. | 1 1984 2.540 1 suic suic 6 |
> 7. | 1 1985 3.205 1 suic suic 7 |
> 8. | 1 1986 5.770 1 suic suic 8 |
> 9. | 1 1987 4.748 1 suic suic 9 |
> 10. | 1 1988 5.467 1 suic suic 10 |
> 11. | 1 1989 7.141 1 suic suic 11 |
> 12. | 1 1990 3.053 1 suic suic 12 |
> 13. | 1 1991 8.661 1 suic suic 13 |
> 14. | 1 1992 3.342 1 suic suic 14 |
> 15. | 1 1993 826 1 suic suic 15 |
> 16. | 1 1994 3.934 1 suic suic 16 |
> 17. | 1 1995 4.784 1 suic suic 17 |
> 18. | 1 1996 7.504 1 suic suic 18 |
> 19. | 1 1997 2.447 1 suic suic 19 |
> 20. | 1 1998 4.397 1 suic suic 20 |
> 21. | 1 1999 4.915 1 suic suic 21 |
> 22. | 1 2000 6.089 1 suic suic 22 |
> 23. | 1 2001 6.756 1 suic suic 23 |
> 24. | 1 2002 5.557 1 suic suic 24 |
> 25. | 1 2003 6.346 1 suic suic 25 |
> 26. | 1 2004 2.588 1 suic suic 26 |
> 27. | 1 2005 7.878 1 suic suic 27 |
> 28. | 1 2006 4.150 1 suic suic 28 |
>
> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -|
> 29. | 2 1979 120 1 west west 1 |
> 30. | 2 1980 120 1 west west 2 |
> 31. | 2 1981 121 1 west west 3 |
> 32. | 2 1982 122 1 west west 4 |
> 33. | 2 1983 121 1 west west 5 |
> 34. | 2 1984 120 1 west west 6 |
> 35. | 2 1985 120 1 west west 7 |
>
>
> I want to reshape the variable x wide. I typed the command
>
> reshape wide x, i(id2) j(varlabel)
>
> but there are 5 distinct values for j = 1,2,3,4,5 associated with each
> value of id2 in my dataset. How do I proceed to have this dataset
> reshaped with x being wide and the j variables unstacked. My final
> dataset should look like this
>
> ID | Year| Suic|West|Central|Pop!Mount|
> 1 1979 .... ... ... ... ...
>
>
> . .
> . .
> . .
> 1 2006
>
> 2 1979
> .
> .
> .
> 2 2006
>
> ... ... .... .... ... ... ...
>
> 28 1979 Suic| West|Central|Pop|Mount
>
> Thank you for all the help you can give me on this. Elena
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