Re: st: RE: Tabulation task

[Serguei Kaniovski <Serguei.Kaniovski@wifo.ac.at>]

The problem is that the VALUES of the variable Vote_id in second file 
are contained in the NAMES of the Vx varibales in the first file. And I 
cannot figure out how to work with this.

Serguei

Martin Weiss schrieb:

> Not sure whether I get this problem right: if there is a unique key that
> ties the person`s vote in the first file to the Vote _id in the second file,
> then -merge- on the unique key and - tabulate- (-tab2-) afterwards.
>
> HTH 
> Martin
>
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> Subject: st: Tabulation task
>
> Hallo,
>
> I am stuck with the following tabulation tast. I have two datafiles. One 
> contains the following variables:
>
> Name, Country, V1, V2, V3, V4, ... large number
> where Vx signifies a persons vote on issue x (numeric, categorical)
>
> A second file contains the issue types (string) of each vote as follows:
>
> Vote_id, Vote_issue
> where Vote _id is numeric and corresponds to 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., Vote_issue 
> is a string decribing the voting issue.
>
> How can I read in the issue types and tabulate the V-variables by issue 
> and country?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Serguei
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