Re:st:stubs, ending with some number, are not available for all waves :-reshape-

[Clyde B Schechter <clyde.schechter@einstein.yu.edu>]

"What I tried is:
- ------------------------------------------------------
unab var: *1
local stubs: subinstr local vars "1" "",all
reshape long `stubs',i(id) j(wave)
- -----------------------------------------------------
 This causes problems for the variables that are not first created at
wave 1. However, if I use 20 instead of 1, I got similar problem for
those variables that are stopped being collected before wave 20."

That's a good start.  Try this:

local stubs
forvalues i = 1/20 {
    unab this_round: *`i'
    local this_round: subinstr local this_round "`i'" "", all
    local stubs: list stubs| this_round
}
reshape long `stubs', i(id) j(wave)

Clyde Schechter
Dept. of Family & Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA


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