st: Extracting data from multiple tabs of an excel spreadsheet and appending in a single stata data file

[Tim Evans <Tim.Evans@wmciu.nhs.uk>]

Hi all,

I'm using Stata 11.2.

I have an Excel file with multiple tabs, containing data in a consistent format throughout.

The excel file contains life expectancies for males and females and the data variables look like this:

Sex age 	mx		qx		lx		dx	ex		sex mx		qx		lx		dx	ex
1   0	      0.005006 	0.004993 	100000.0	499.3	78.05		2   0.004152 	0.004143 	100000.0	414.3	82.12
to
100

Each tab of the excel file relates to a specific time period, for instance, 2008-10, 2007-09 through to 1985-87. Note that the age variable is only present on the right hand side of the data.

What I would like to do is to create one data file for use in Stata, in the format:

Year sex age mx		qx		lx		dx 	ex
1987	1   0  0.005006 	0.004993 	100000.0	499.3	78.05	
1987  2   0  0.004152 	0.004143 	100000.0	414.3	82.12


Where Year is equal to the last value of the tab name (2008-10 would be 2010 and 1985-87 would be 1987).

Any suggestions appreciated - otherwise a horrible cut and paste job is in store!


Best wishes

Tim




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