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Re: st: reshaping
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: reshaping
Date
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:43:16 +0100
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reshape wide value, i(country year) j(series) string
rename valueE Exports
rename valueG GDP
rename valueI Imports
reshape wide E G I , i(country) j(year) string
Nick
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good evening statalist
>
> I have data in the following form with variable name row given by-
>
> series country continent year2000 year2001 year2002
>
> GDP
> ...
>
> Exports
> ...
>
> Imports
> ....
>
> (series takes values such as GDP, Exports Imports etc)
>
> Since I would like to do some operations on GDP and Exports/Imports
> etc what I would ultimately like the variable name row to be is
>
> country continent GDP2000 Exports2000 Imports2000 GDP2000 Exports2001 and so on
>
> I managed to reshape as a first step to get
>
> series country continent year value
>
> But I need your suggestions to get to the form I desire.
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