Re: st: reshaping with multiple identifiers

[Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>]

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Mintewab:

Running the commands you gave yesterday (with some clean-up and adding vars you forgot to include (like 'mavg')) gives:

**********************!
clear
inp str11(s25q3)	hhid	kebele	year	mo
"maize"	1	1	2006	1
"potatoes"	1	1	2005	1
"grass"	1	1	2004	1
"sinar/ge"	1	1	2003	1
"sinar/ge"	1	1	2002	1
end
g mavg = runiform()

egen both=group(year mo ), label //labels won't help you here
drop year mo
**you don't need 'new' since i() takes a varlist
reshape wide mavg , i(kebele hhid s25q3)  j(both)
list, noobs

/* which gives:
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |    s25q3   hhid   kebele      mavg1      mavg2      mavg3     mavg4      mavg5 |
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |    grass      1        1          .          .   .3713805         .          . |
  |    maize      1        1          .          .          .         .   .1650207 |
  | potatoes      1        1          .          .          .   .760604          . |
  | sinar/ge      1        1   .9678735   .3795409          .         .          . |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
*/
**********************!
I'm not sure what you expected here, but you got what you asked for.  The reason 'mavg*' is missing in the wide version is that there was no data in the long version of the data.  That is, the 'mavg*' vars are non-missing in only 'mavg3' in the first observation because for the i() grass, hhid==1, kebele==1, you only have one observation in the original, long dataset (in 2004, month 1, which become the 3rd 'mavg' var in your wide data since it's the 3rd "group" of your j() var 'both').

If you expected something else, please describe with more detail (or better give an example of what you are trying to get -reshape- to do for you) so that others can give advice.

- Eric

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On Mar 31, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

> You asked the same question yesterday and there were no answers. When
> that happens it is best to assume that the original question was not
> clear enough. Actually this version is even less informative than
> yesterday's!
> 
> In this case, I see only that you want to -reshape- and that your
> attempts to do that don't satisfy. But you don't explain what most of
> these variables are. I can guess at -hhid- and -year-. Perhaps -mo-
> means "month". Why should have to guess?
> 
> Nor do you show us the structure you want. What would a typical
> observation look like in the ideal structure?
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Mintewab Bezabih
> <Mintewab.Bezabih@economics.gu.se> wrote:
> 
>> I was trying to reshape wide my data using the command below:
>> 
>> 
>> egen both=group (  year mo ), label
>> egen new=group ( kebele hhid s25q3 ), label
>> 
>> reshape wide mavg , i(new)  j( both)
>> 
>> my variables are : s25q3   hhid    kebele  year    mo
>> 
>> but while my code runs fine, I just end up with almost no observations in the reshaped file. I would appreciate any suggestion on how I could do this right
>> 
> 
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