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| From | Abhimanyu Arora <abhimanyu.arora1987@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: reshape |
| Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:59:30 +0200 |
Hi, I guess the simplest solution would be to add 2000 to the year variable if year<20 or concatenate "20" There might be more elegant ones no doubt. Abhimanyu On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ozgur Ozdemir <ozdemirozgur@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to change of my data format using reshape. it seems, it is a great function however my variable names are a bit problematic. I have the following example > > CompanyId, Tobin2000, Tobin01, Tobin02, Sales2000YE, Sales2001YE etc. All variables are on yearly basis. > > Some variables have 01 for 2001, 02 for 2002 but some of them have exactly 2001, 2002 etc. Not sure, how I can use reshape command? > > my command below: > > > "reshape long Tobin sales@YE, i(Companyid) j(year) string" does not help because stata creates both 01 and 2001. > > > kind regards > Ozgur Ozdemir > E: ozdemirozgur@hotmail.com > Skype : ozgurozdemir2005 > > * > * 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/