Friedrich,
it works,
thank you very much
Sara
--- Mer 21/5/08, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Da: Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
> Oggetto: Re: st: reshape question
> A: [email protected]
> Data: Mercoled� 21 maggio 2008, 20:39
> Sara,
>
> Try this:
>
> reshape long x@_24, i(id) j(year) string
>
> Friedrich
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, sara borelli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear members,
> >
> > I have a dataset in wide format where the variables
> are
> >
> > id x73_24 x74_24 x75_24 x87_24 x99_24
> x00_24
> > ... ... ... ... ... ...
> ...
> >
> > where the first two numbers in, for example, x73_24
> indicate the year. It is a variable indicating whether
> there are less than 24 crimes in 1973 in city id; x00_24
> indicates whether there are less than 24 crimes in 2000 in
> city id, and so on...
> >
> >
> > I have specified
> > reshape long x@_24, i(id), j(year)
> > after reshape stata displays
> > note: j=0 73 74 75 87 99
> > note: x0_24 not found
> >
> >
> > if instead I write
> > reshape long x@_24, i(id), j(year 73-75 87 99 00)
> >
> > stata does not give that messagge. Is this because
> stata does read "00" as a "0" and thus
> does not recognize any x0_24?
> > And would be correct to apply the second
> specification? Looking at that the data it seems correct to
> me but I would like to be sure
> >
> > Thank you for any help
> > Sara Borelli
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