Daniel,
You do not have to reshape the data. Go to measuredhs.com and download
the long form of the births recode file with one observation per
birth. The file format is called "flat data".
Friedrich
On 10/10/07, Daniel Wilde <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have created the following do file to create ten years of mortality data
> from each DHS survey. It works. But the reshape command takes ages -- like
> 15 mins --- on my version of STATA 8 on my IBM think pad laptop. Is there
> someway I can speed up the command?
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel Wilde
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