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Re: st: reshape WDI from wide to long format
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: reshape WDI from wide to long format
Date
Mon, 16 May 2011 17:18:56 +0200
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sami Alameen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, the data is list with the following column headers:
>
> countryname countrycode seriesname seriescode y1960 ...... y2010
>
> My question is how to plug these variables into the reshape command
I am guessing that you forgot the -string- option in -reshape-. There
have recently been a host of examples for this type of problems
published on the Statalist, for example:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-05/msg00564.html
or:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-05/msg00642.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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