I doubt that your -reshape- is treating the explicit values
01 02 ... 10
literally as strings in the way you wish.
To Stata 01 02 ... is an acceptable way of specifying
1 2 ..., just as 0.1 is an acceptable way of
specifying .1, but that's not what you want.
Stata is looking in turn for variables of the form
<stub>1 <stub>2 ... <stub>10
but it only finds those of the form
<stub>10, hence the much reduced dataset you got.
So you really need the literal string interpretation "01" etc.
and there is a -string- option for this purpose.
Perhaps Stata should be better at catching this,
but it's quite tricky given Stata's general
rules.
Note also an explicit warning embedded within
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/reshape3.html:
"On occasion, people use numeric suffixes with leading zeros,
such as 01, 02, and so forth. -reshape- will understand
these properly only if they are declared as string."
In short, try
. reshape long $varx, i(wid) j string
Nick
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>
> Hi Shigui,
> It is true. I am using a dhs data. I understand the figure
> but I think that once
> I
> provide some summary statisctics, you will understand my problem:
>
> >
> > . global varx "bidx_ bord_ b0_ b3_ b4_ b5_ b7_ b11_ "
> > . global varx2 "bidx bord b0 b3 b4 b5 b7 b11"
> > . reshape long $varx, i(wid) j(j 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10)
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