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From | JP Azevedo <jp.statalist@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: reshape WDI from wide to long format |
Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2011 23:14:44 -0400 |
Hello Sami, One possible alternative is to use the Stata module wbopendata, which does have a reshape option embeded. All you have to do is to chose for the data to be displayed in the long format (as oppose to the wide default format). Notice that all WDI indicators are accessible through this module directly into Stata. For more information type: ssc install wbopendata help wbopendata examples: wbopendata, language(en - English) indicator(ag.agr.trac.no) long clear wbopendata, language(en - English) topics(2 - Aid Effectiveness) long Best, JP On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sami Alameen <samialameen@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, the data is list with the following column headers: > > countryname countrycode seriesname seriescode y1960 ...... y2010 > > My question is how to plug these variables into the reshape command > Some of u will suggest using user written commands, they keep failing > no matter how many variables, countries, or years I drop. > So simply if Stata can do it with the built in commands what is the > right syntax to use? > > All the best > * > * 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/