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st: RE: RE: Reshape for DHS data file


From   "Panos Sousounis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Reshape for DHS data file
Date   Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:41:42 -0000

Masanja,

Does the fact that your caseid var goes b1_01, b1_02 ... mean you work with
a panel? If that's the case then I think in the command suggested by Nick
you should add the periods as in: 

reshape long b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7, i(caseid) j(timevar t1 t2 ...) string

hope that helps

Panos

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 20 November 2006 13:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: Reshape for DHS data file

Sorry, but I have no idea of what "Demographic
and Health Survey" implies here, if anything. 

On the face of it, your stubs are 

b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7

your suffixes are string, and your example is already
in suitable form. In any case it is a good idea 
to indicate what you have tried to date and what you 
find unclear so that you are asking this question. 

I guess 

reshape long b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7, i(caseid) string 

If that's not the solution, you should study the 
help and also 

I am having problems with the reshape command. Can
you give further guidance?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/reshape3.html

thoroughly before returning to the list. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Masanja
 
> I have a Demographic and Health Survey dataset (see variables below)
> which I would like to reshape from wide to long format. Any assistance
> would be much appreciated
> 
>      str      caseid      1:   1-15
>      long    v005        1:  38-45
>      byte    v006        1:  46-47
>      int      v007        1:  48-51
>      int      v008        1:  52-55
>      byte    b1_01       1: 222-223
>      int      b2_01       1: 224-227
>      int      b3_01       1: 228-231
>      byte   b4_01       1: 232-232
>      byte    b5_01       1: 233-233
>      int      b6_01       1: 234-236
>      int      b7_01       1: 237-239
>      byte    b1_02       1: 259-260
>      int      b2_02       1: 261-264
>      int      b3_02       1: 265-268
>      byte    b4_02       1: 269-269
>      byte    b5_02       1: 270-270
>      int      b6_02       1: 271-273
>      int      b7_02       1: 274-276
>      byte    b1_03       1: 296-297
>      int      b2_03       1: 298-301
>      int      b3_03       1: 302-305
>      byte    b4_03       1: 306-306
>      byte    b5_03       1: 307-307
>      int      b6_03       1: 308-310
>      int      b7_03       1: 311-313

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