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st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
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st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:37:12 -0400
Stefan,
Does this answer your question?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/apply-labels-after-reshape/
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Stefan Schöftner"
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a
> Variable.
>
>
>
> Hello Dear Statalist subscribers,
>
> As a fellow reader, i now dare to post my first own question.
> I got actually a rather simple looking issue but it seems not doable also
> i worked on it for several days
>
> I got a sample of a Data file looking something like this:
>
> Long FORM:
> ID´s repeat therefor i need the wide form.
>
> Obs. ID Title Amount Code
> 1 xxx abc 12345 yy1
> 2 xxx bcd 54321 yy2
> 3 xxx cda 43215 yy3
> 4 xxx acb 32154 yy4
> 5 xxx cad 21543 yy4
>
>
> I use a reshape command to bring this dataset into wide form
> so it looks like this
>
> Wide Form:
>
> Obs. ID yy1 yy2 yy3 yy4 yy5 Title
>
>
> 1 xxx abc
> 2 xxx bcd
> 3 xxx AMOUNT ---------------------Amount cda
> 4 xxx acb
> 5 xxx cad
>
> What I now desire, would be that the variable "Title" be converted into
> the label text for the according variables yy1-yy5-yyx.
> yyx because the entire dataset consists of several 10.000 observations
> The variable "code" itself would be enough for identification but since im
> going to work a lot more with this sample the change in Label would help
> me quite a bit.
>
> At the current point in time i just drop "Title" and deal with the Coding.
> I would really appreciate any input on how to solve this issue.
>
> Best Regards and Thanks in Advance
> Stefan
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