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Re: st: STATA Pivot capability
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: STATA Pivot capability
Date
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:42:22 +0000
Questions assuming familiarity with the details of MS Excel cut down
the readership quite a bit.
My guess is much the same as Jay's, and the answer is that you can
import this; you will need to -reshape- afterwards to do very much
useful
Nick
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:33 PM, JVerkuilen (Gmail)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Michael Stewart
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am trying to find if Stata can import/export data from/to excel in
>> the form of pivot table for excel.
>> Can anyone help me .
>
> If you would explain what the pivot table is that would help. I seem
> to recall it's a cross tab (like what Stata generates with
> -tabulate-), with rows and columns being categories of a nominal
> variable such as occupation by state. If so Stata "prefers" to have
> these represented differently. If the pivot was:
>
> A1 A2 A3
> B1 x11 x12 x13
> B2 x21 x22 x23
> B3 x31 x32 x33
>
> Stata would really prefer you lay out the data as:
>
> A B X
> 1 1 x11
> 1 2 x21
> 1 3 x31
> 2 1 x21
> 2 2 x22
> 2 3 x23
> 3 1 x31
> 3 2 x32
> 3 3 x33
>
> But it depends a lot on what you intend to do with the data.
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