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Re: st: Extract variable name in order to change it, iteratively


From   James Muller <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Extract variable name in order to change it, iteratively
Date   Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:48:21 +1000

If your dates are all the same number of digits you can do some direct string processing:


foreach var of varlist `mylist' {
local len = length("`var'")

local head = substr("`var'",1,`len'-2)
local tail = substr("`var'",`len'-1,`len')

if (`tail' < 70) local date = 2000 + `tail'
else local date = 1900 + `tail'

rename `var' `head'`date'
}


and then reshape as you like.

James



David Harrison wrote:


Along these lines, you could also specify that the two-digit year should be a string variable with, e.g.

reshape long var1_ var2_, i(id) j(year) string

David

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Philip Ryan
Sent: 02 August 2005 14:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Extract variable name in order to change it,
iteratively


You might try an alternative specification of the j index on -reshape-.

Here is a little data set:

. list, clean noobs

id var1_00 var1_01 var1_88 var1_89 var2_00 var2_01 var2_88 var2_89
1 11 13 12 3 4 6 67 8
2 9 6 14 5 10 2 18 3
3 13 4 11 2 15 8 8 7


. reshape long var1_ var2_, i(id) j(year 00 01 88 89)

Data wide -> long
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of obs. 3 -> 12
Number of variables 9 -> 4
j variable (4 values) -> year
xij variables:
var1_00 var1_01 ... var1_89 -> var1_
var2_00 var2_01 ... var2_89 -> var2_
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

. li, clean noobs

id year var1_ var2_
1 0 11 4
1 1 13 6
1 88 12 67
1 89 3 8
2 0 9 10
2 1 6 2
2 88 14 18
2 89 5 3
3 0 13 15
3 1 4 8
3 88 11 8
3 89 2 7

That is to say, _you_ may specify the values of the subobservation index rather
than allow Stata to try and determine them - unsuccesfully on this occasion, as
you discovered.

Phil


Quoting Jeppe Warberg Larsen <[email protected]>:



I have a wide data structure. Each observation consists of a unique
identifier (say, id) and some series of annual variables with a
two-digit suffix (running in different intervals). Like this:

id var1_88 var1_89 ... var1_02 var2_92 var2_93 ... var2_02
var3_...................................

Now I want to reshape it to long, but stata fails to read the
two-digit values after the turn of century (00 01 02), so I need to
rename all varibles to a four-digit year.

foreach var of varlist var1_88-var100_02{
//save name of variable in a local string
//do nessecary string manipulation (I can do that)
//rename var
}

My problem seems to be:
1) extracting the name of the current variable
2) rename

Do you understand what I'm asking?
I'd be glad if someone can help, and please don't tell me that it
would be easier to do this manually, because I will need to do this
operation many times...

Jeppe W. Larsen

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