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| From | Rajaram Subramanian Potty <rajara999@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Data Manipulation |
| Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:27:09 +0530 |
This is real data set from a researh study and include arond 500 persons. In the example, I provided the data of four persons only. Thanks and regards. RAM On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: > It is not clear to me what you mean by "a data", which I don't think > is widely accepted as a standard form of words. I can't imagine it > being printed in the Stata Journal, for example. > > If you want to create different datasets from this master dataset, my > guess is that would make most analyses much more difficult, especially > one dataset for each person. > > Some analyses would be easier with a long data structure in which each > sex act was a separate observation. That's a -reshape long-. > > (I set aside the question of whether this is real data or the research > ethical!) > > Nick > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Rajaram Subramanian Potty > <rajara999@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have one data, each selected persons were followed each day and >> enquired about their sex act in each day. For each sex act details >> were collected. For example, if the respondent reported 3 acts were >> reported, information on all the three sex acts were collected. Now >> the data available is for each date. From this data, I wanted to >> create a data for each person and also another data for each sex act. >> these data set should also include all the variables as well. >> Following is an example of the data with few variables for the first 3 >> sex acts. >> >> The variable ending with _01, _02, and _03 indicates the 3 sex act in >> the same day. >> >> id act_dd act_mm act_yy doi_dd doi_mm doi_yy tot_act rep_01 rep_02 rep_03 q1_01 q1_02 q1_03 >> 20020001 7 2 2011 8 2 2011 3 X X X 4 4 3 >> 20020001 8 2 2011 9 2 2011 1 X 4 >> 20020001 9 2 2011 10 2 2011 2 X X 3 3 >> 20020001 10 2 2011 11 2 2011 1 X 1 >> 20020001 11 2 2011 12 2 2011 0 >> 20020001 12 2 2011 13 2 2011 2 X X 4 1 >> 20020001 13 2 2011 14 2 2011 1 X 4 >> 20020001 14 2 2011 16 2 2011 2 X X 4 4 >> 20020001 15 2 2011 16 2 2011 2 A A 2 2 >> 20020001 16 2 2011 17 2 2011 1 X 3 >> 20020002 12 2 2011 13 2 2011 0 >> 20020002 13 2 2011 14 2 2011 5 A A X 1 1 4 >> 20020002 14 2 2011 15 2 2011 2 A A 1 1 >> 20020002 15 2 2011 16 2 2011 2 A A 4 4 >> 20020002 16 2 2011 17 2 2011 4 X A A 1 4 4 >> 20020002 17 2 2011 18 2 2011 2 X X 3 3 >> 20020003 8 2 2011 9 2 2011 0 >> 20020003 9 2 2011 10 2 2011 0 >> 20020003 10 2 2011 11 2 2011 4 A A X 4 4 4 >> 20020003 11 2 2011 12 2 2011 3 X X X 3 3 4 >> 20020003 12 2 2011 13 2 2011 0 >> 20020003 13 2 2011 14 2 2011 2 X X 3 3 >> 20020003 14 2 2011 15 2 2011 3 X X X 4 3 1 >> 20020003 15 2 2011 16 2 2011 3 A A X 3 3 3 >> 20020004 1 3 2011 2 3 2011 0 >> 20020004 11 2 2011 12 2 2011 1 X 4 >> 20020004 12 2 2011 15 2 2011 0 >> 20020004 13 2 2011 15 2 2011 2 X X 3 4 >> 20020004 14 2 2011 15 2 2011 1 X 3 >> 20020004 15 2 2011 18 2 2011 0 > > * > * 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/