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Re: st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:15:39 -0500
On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Stefan Schöftner <[email protected]> wrote:
> My goal is to reshape it into wide form because i need unique ID´s for further merging with other datasets with additional information.
If that is why you are reshaping you wide, don't; you can merge just as easily with the data in long form (i.e., using a 1:m or m:1 merge).
> reshape wide title amount, i(id) j(code)
>
> it would look like this:
>
> Obs. ID yy1 yy1Title yy2 yy2Title yy3 yy3Title yy4 yy4Title yy5 yy5Title
>
> 1 xxx Amount abc
> 2 xxx Amount bcd
> 3 xxx Amount cda
> 4 xxx Amount acb
> 5 xxx Amount cad
>
> 4th-
> What i´m trying to achiev is now that Titel values are now represented int the variable List as Variable Lables
>
> Such as:
>
> Variable Label
> ID Identification Nr.
> yy1 (yy1Title) yy1 abc
> yy2 (yy2Title) yy2 bcd
> and so forth
In that case, the code I posted will do what you want.
-- Phil
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