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| From | Abhimanyu Arora <abhimanyu.arora1987@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: reshaping |
| Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:56:50 +0200 |
Thanks Nick, what a pleasingly ingenious solution! On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: > On references to time of day, see > <http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#others> at "The > local is not global" > > reshape wide value, i(country year) j(series) string > rename valueE Exports > rename valueG GDP > rename valueI Imports > reshape wide E G I , i(country) j(year) string > > Nick > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Abhimanyu Arora > <abhimanyu.arora1987@gmail.com> wrote: >> Good evening statalist >> >> I have data in the following form with variable name row given by- >> >> series country continent year2000 year2001 year2002 >> >> GDP >> ... >> >> Exports >> ... >> >> Imports >> .... >> >> (series takes values such as GDP, Exports Imports etc) >> >> Since I would like to do some operations on GDP and Exports/Imports >> etc what I would ultimately like the variable name row to be is >> >> country continent GDP2000 Exports2000 Imports2000 GDP2000 Exports2001 and so on >> >> I managed to reshape as a first step to get >> >> series country continent year value >> >> But I need your suggestions to get to the form I desire. > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/