Re: st: problems with reshaping dataset.

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You should always show us your code, even if it doesn't work, as then
we can say what you are getting wrong. At a guess the problem here is
turning the corner at century-end. Consider

. list

     +-------------------------+
     | country   v1_99   v1_00 |
     |-------------------------|
  1. | Albania       1       3 |
  2. |  Zenda        2       4 |
     +-------------------------+

. reshape long v1_ , i(country) string
(note: j = 00 99)

Data                               wide   ->   long
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of obs.                        2   ->       4
Number of variables                   3   ->       3
j variable (2 values)                     ->   _j
xij variables:
                            v1_00 v1_99   ->   v1_
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

. l

     +--------------------+
     | country   _j   v1_ |
     |--------------------|
  1. | Albania   00     3 |
  2. | Albania   99     1 |
  3. |  Zenda    00     4 |
  4. |  Zenda    99     2 |
     +--------------------+

. gen year = cond(_j < "20", 2000 + real(_j), 1900 + real(_j))

. l

     +---------------------------+
     | country   _j   v1_   year |
     |---------------------------|
  1. | Albania   00     3   2000 |
  2. | Albania   99     1   1999 |
  3. |  Zenda    00     4   2000 |
  4. |  Zenda    99     2   1999 |
     +---------------------------+

. d

Contains data
  obs:             4
 vars:             4
 size:            72 (99.9% of memory free)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
country         str7   %9s
_j              str2   %9s
v1_             byte   %8.0g
year            float  %9.0g
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by:  country  _j
     Note:  dataset has changed since last saved


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:02 PM, natasha agarwal
<agarwana2@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have a dataset which looks like:
>
> country v1_80 v2_80...v59_80 v1_00 v2_01 v3_01
> ALB         x          x           x           x         x          x
>
> I use the reshape long comand, but it does not reshape the variables
> where the year is 00, 01.
>
> Besides, I want to reshape the dataset like
>
> country   year        variable
> ALB         1980          v1
> ALB          1980          v2
> ALB          2000          v1
> ALB           2001          v1
>
> I have tried variants of reshape command but have failed to achieve
> such a structure of my dataset.
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