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From | "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> |
To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | AW: st: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar year |
Date | Sun, 4 Jul 2010 15:39:18 +0200 |
<> In these particular circumstances, -collapse- can be used to similar effect as -reshape wide-, but whether the result is better than a long form is doubtful: ************* clear* set obs 230 gen int nurshome=_n expand 2 bys nurshome: gen byte observation=_n collapse (firstnm) firstobs=observation /* */ (lastnm) lastobs=observation, by(nurshome) l, noo sepby(nurshome) ************* HTH Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Duha Altindag Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 15:33 An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Betreff: Re: st: Combining two financial reports in the same calendar year -collapse- will make it. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Krauchunas <krauchunasms@mymail.vcu.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working with California nursing home data and I have a number of > nursing homes that have numerous financial reports in the same > calendar year that I need to combine. For instance, nursing home ABC > has one financial report covering period Jan 1, 2004 - Mar 31, 2004 > and another Apr 1, 2004 - Dec 31, 2004. Is there a way in Stata to > combine these two "observations" into a single observation? > > Thank you, > Matt > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/