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Re: st: Rehape help


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Rehape help
Date   Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:44:16 +0000

We can't say where you are going wrong if you don't show us any code,
but consider

reshape wide Var1, i(Lab) j(startyear)

Nick

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using Stata 11.2 and want to use reshape to change the layout of my data and I'm struggling a bit. My current data look like this:
>
> Var1       startyear              Lab
> 0.6692   1986                       1 1
> 0.7734   1986                       2 1
> 0.5548   1986                       3 1
> 0.6590   1987                       1 1
> 0.7526   1987                       2 1
> 0.5972   1987                       3 1
>
> What I want to have is
>
> Lab         Var1Startyear1986           Var1Startyear1987
> 1 1          0.6692                                   0.6590
> 2 1          0.7734                                   0.7526
> 3 1          0.5548                                   0.5972
>
> I've tried reshape with a variety of different syntax, but cant seem to reproduce how I want the data.

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