Sorry about the previous posting . . trying to recover from an e-mail 
client catastrophe.
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TEWODAJ MOGUES wrote:
. . . I also considered transposing the
data then ordering the animal variables but I couldn't find a way to 
make stata transpose and use as its new variables the observations of 
-animals- 
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I'm not sure that transposing and ordering is the best way to go for 
800 observations,  but you can transpose string variables with -
sxpose-.
Joseph Coveney
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