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st: reshape world development indicators dataset


From   marco stampini <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: reshape world development indicators dataset
Date   Tue, 1 Apr 2008 22:24:52 -0700 (PDT)

Hello.
I need to reshape a World Development Indicators dataset. Currently, it is organized as follows.

country     var        year2000    year2001   year2002
Angola      GDP         100          102        104
Angola      Export       20           21         20
Algeria     GDP         200          202        204
Algeria     Export       10           11         10

country and var are string variables.

The dataset has 26500 rows and 43 columns (53 countries, 37 years, 500 variables per country). I could reduce this if the size is a problem.

I would need the dataset to be organized as follows

country     year     GDP     Export
Angola      2000     100      20
Angola      2001     102      21
Angola      2002     104      20
Algeria     2000     200      10
Algeria     2001     202      11
Algeria     2002     204      10

This dataset would have 502 columns (country, year and 500 variables), and 1961 rows (53 countries times 37 years).

I tried the usual reshape commands but had no success. I am sure I am missing something.
Your help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Marco


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