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st: help in data manipulation (extraction of components in database and transposition of entries)


From   Jose Ramon Albert <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: help in data manipulation (extraction of components in database and transposition of entries)
Date   Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:11:10 -0800 (PST)

i have a census data set of farming households that
have on each
"parcel" several sets of commodities planted... the
database looks likes this:

farm  parcel    commodity          area    type
1       1           rice            2
permanent
1       2           corn            3
permanent
2       1           banana          5         temp
2       1           rice            3         temp
2       1           corn            4         temp
2       2           rice            10       permanent
2       2           corn           5         permanent

etc.

is it possible to have the STATA database look instead
like this:

farm   parcel   rice area     corn area  barana area
1          1        2
1          2        .             3
2          1        3             4               5
2          2        10            5


in principle, what's happening is that we select each
unique parcel
and extract the "data matrix"  and then transpose
it...

can this be done in STATA or would it be faster to do
this in
another software instead?

jose ramon albert
manila, philippines

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