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st: RE: Conserving variables and value labels while reshaping wide to long
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"Radwin, David" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Conserving variables and value labels while reshaping wide to long
Date
Wed, 22 May 2013 15:43:36 -0400
Natalia,
Keeping variable labels after -reshape- is a FAQ, at least through
version 11:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/apply-labels-after-res
hape/index.html
David
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David Radwin
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Berkeley, CA 94704
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of natalia malancu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Conserving variables and value labels while reshaping
wide to
> long
>
> Hi guys!
>
> I have the following data structure
>
> id da03 da04 ea03 ea04
>
> where d refers to wave 1 of my data and e refers to wave 2.
>
> after reshaping I am left with the variables a03 and a04.
>
> How would a loop structure look like in order to preserve both the
> variable and value labels?
>
> Thanks,
> Natalia
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