Greetings,
I have a data set of 92 sets of crime rankings by SMSA. But whoever put them together made a mess out of them (originally in Excel, but I have them in Stata). The data set consists of about 230 SMSAs (standard metropolitan statistical areas) and their crime totals and ranks in 4 columns: data set number, SMSA name, total, rank--92 times (one for each data set number) so I have about 30,000+ entries.
What I want to do is to create 92 * 2 variables so that the data set would look like this:
SMSAname total1 rank1 total2 rank2...total92 rank92
ideally using SMSAname only once rather than 92 times. Any suggestions as to how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much,
Ric
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