Re: st: Panel data variable transpose help

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dangol, Ramesh <rdangol@bsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a panel data set separated by "ITEM_id", year and FIRM_ID.  I would like to transpose the "ITEM_PER" variable into rows (by year and firm name) and fill in the corresponding rows in the following manner. I also would like to retain the column variable "P_PER".  What would be easiest way to achieve this?
>
> ITEM_ID    year    Firm_ID      P_PER         ITEM1    TIEM2   TIEM3
> ITEM1        2002     1                  X                     X              Y             Z
> ITEM2       2002           1            Y                      X              Y             Z
> TIME3       2002           1            Z                      X              Y             Z
>
> ITEM1        2003     1                  X                     X              Y             Z
> ITEM2       2003           1            Y                      X              Y             Z
> TIME3       2003           1            Z                      X              Y             Z
>
> ITEM11       2003     2                  X                     X              Y             Z
> ITEM12        2003          2           Y                      X              Y             Z
> TIME12       2003           2           Z                      X              Y             Z
>

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