Re: st: data manipulating question

[Phuong Lan Nguyen <phuong@u.washington.edu>]

Dear Clive,

I forgot to mention that I used reshape command but then my sample size 
has increased to 3 times as new variable. That means, I have 3 values for 
every single household. I do not want to change  sample size. I just want 
to have exact number of cases as before I do reshape.  so what is the next 
step for getting that variable?

best,
Phuong


On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Clive Nicholas wrote:


> Phuong Lan Nguyen wrote:
>
> > I have a question about stata program and I hope you are able to help me.
> > I
> > have a series of numeric variables and want to group them into 1
> > variable. Details of my data is
> >
> >  	var1		var2		var3
> >  	x		y		z
> >
> > 3 variables indicates 3 code of teaching experience of teachers. Now i
> > want to
> > group them into 1 variable:
> >
> >  	new variable
> > var1 	x
> > var2	y
> > var3	z
> >
> > What command should I use to transform these variables?
> If I were a betting man, I'd say -reshape- ought to do the job. Here's my
> stab:
>
> (1) Create a new column, place it to the extreme left and give that cell a
>    name (let's call it -ugg-);
>
> (2) Then:
>    . reshape long new, i(ugg) j(var)
>
> If I have it the right way around, that ought to do it.
>
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