Md. Alauddin Majumder wrote:
I want to reshape the following data to make it panel:
ID status_1997january status_1997february . . . status_2010december
[snip]
Is there any way to do this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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You could try something like the following.
reshape long status, i(ID) j(discard) string
generate int yearmonth = monthly(substr(discard, 2, .), "YM")
format yearmonth %tm
drop discard
Joseph Coveney
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