RE: st: reshape wide with 'repeated' observations

["Ojinnaka, Chinedum" <ojinnaka@srph.tamhsc.edu>]

I am sorry about the confusion. Yes, the data is in long form and I want to reshape it to a wide form. However, because some of the observations have similar values like in the table I provided. Stata says the values are not unique to the id. I am wondering if there is a way to get around this problem. 

Thank you.
Chi-Chi

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:37 PM
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Subject: Re: st: reshape wide with 'repeated' observations

Your title says "reshape wide" but you say you want to "reshape from wide to long". Stata means "reshape to wide" when it says "reshape wide" and similarly for "long".

In your case, the example data appear to be already in long form with identifier repeated for each observation. For most panel or longitudinal tasks, this is what you need, so if I understand you correctly, there is no problem to be fixed.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 18 February 2014 17:05, Ojinnaka, Chinedum <ojinnaka@srph.tamhsc.edu> wrote:

> I want to reshape a dataset from wide to long. The variable of interest is a measure that can be repeated multiple times with the same measurement (example provided in table below), thus, I received an error message saying that values of the variable are not unique within the studyid. Is there anything that can be done about this?
>
> id      date                   level
> 1       02202004        5.6
> 1       04202004        5.4
> 1       06202004        5.6

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