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Re: st: RE: reshape problem


From   "Emanuele Millemaci" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: reshape problem
Date   Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:55:11 +0100

Ada,

I  tried two different ways to read in the data obtaining the same
disappointing results: 1)I used the command "insheet"  2)  I copied
from excel and pasted into the data editor. Data look rectangular and
I cannot see missing values before typing the reshape command.


2008/12/9 Ada Ma <[email protected]>:
> Emanuele,
>
> Have you read in the data correctly?  If the data isn't read in
> correctly then it may not form a proper rectangle, which explains why
> it doesn't -reshape- properly.
>
> Ada
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds like a http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-11/msg01084.html
>> problem... Where should the randomness come from in a command like
>> -reshape-?
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emanuele
>> Millemaci
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:27 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: st: reshape problem
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a dataset on excel with regions on the rows and years on the columns.
>> I moved this data to Stata 10.1 MP(updated to the latest packages) and
>> was trying to reshaping from wide to long as I would like to have all
>> years' data of the same variable on the same column.
>>
>> Below, I report an example of what I have:
>>
>> regio prod1995 prod1996 .....prod2006
>>
>> 1         ....             ...            ...
>> 2          ...             ...            ...
>> 3         ...              ...            ...
>> 4         ...             ...            ...
>>
>> I would like to get:
>>
>> regio years    prod
>> 1      1995    ...
>> 1      1996    ...
>> ..
>> 2      1995    ...
>> ..
>> 3      1995    ...
>> ..
>> 4      1995    ...
>> ..
>>
>> The command I use is:
>>
>> reshape long prod, i(regio) j(year)
>>
>> It would appear a very easy task. Instead, the result I get is always
>> different (every time I launch the command) and never correct.
>> Stata drops many observations and many others become missing for some
>> variable (whereas my dataset has no missing value). I have also
>> checked that Stata considers data as numeric.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Emanuele
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>
>
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