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Re: st: Reshape with prefix using a varlist
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reshape with prefix using a varlist
Date
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:02:06 +0000
Thanks. That clarifies some things but not others. In your example,
you have 7 headings but 6 columns of data. What is
"country1-country244"? A variable label?
The totals for groups are easily computable using -egen, total()- with
your present structure.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Richard Murphy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick ,
> I appreciate that it looks foolish making a wide dataset even wider,
> but I don't think its that bad in this case.
> I have university by degree level by year data. For each of these i
> have the number of students coming from 244 different countries, along
> with total EU and total OS.
>
> year instit LEVEL os uk eu country1-country244
> 1994 1 ug 12 146 0
> 1994 1 pgr 3 335 3
> 1994 1 pgt 1 101 0
> 1995 1 ug 7 119 0
> 1995 1 pgr 4 300 9
> 1995 1 pgt 6 59 17
>
> There are 3 levels of degree, which i would like to make wide. So that
> I would have a panel dataset for universities over time. The reason
> why i want to do this is that I want to calculate the cross
> subsidisation that occurs between the degree levels, and for this I
> need the totals for each within an observation.
>
> I need to do this for all the countries as i'm using a Card
> Shift-Share approach as an instrument for changes in overseas numbers,
> which i would like to define in various different ways throughout the
> analysis (EU, NonEU, Asia, ect).
>
> And i would like the prefix, so that the variable names fit into my
> pre existing do files for the analysis.
>
> Best regards
> Richard
>
>
> On 14 March 2011 17:24, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please tell us directly more about your dataset and why you think
>> -reshape wide- is a good idea. From what you say it just make most
>> analyses more difficult. Also, how many variables will you end up
>> with?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Richard Murphy
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I want to reshape long data to wide, putting the 'j' string variable
>>> at the begging of the stub.
>>> This would be fine if I have a limited number of variables as i can
>>> just use the @ function.
>>> reshape wide @var1 @var2 @var3 @var4, i(instit year) j(LEVEL) string
>>>
>>> But this does not work if i use the variable list functionality of
>>> reshape. I would like to know if their is an easier way of doing this,
>>> rather than typing in all 244 variables preceded by @.
>>> reshape wide @var1-@var244, i(instit year) j(LEVEL) string
>>>
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