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Re: st: reshape to keep single age range and multiple years


From   Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: reshape to keep single age range and multiple years
Date   Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:26:44 -0600

drop id
reshape wide count , i(yy) j(age)

Scott


On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Stata 11.2 and I've collapsed an individual data set so that I have year, counts of tumours and age at diagnosis. I have multiple years of diagnosis, with single year of age starting from 16 - 100+.
>
> The data look like this:
>
> id      yydx    count   age_at_diag
> 1       1998    1       22
> 2       1998    1       25
> 3       1998    2       26
> 4       1998    4       27
> 5       1998    2       29
> 6       1998    1       31
> 7       1998    2       32
> 8       1998    1       33
> 9       1998    1       35
> 10      1998    2       36
> 11      1998    3       37
> 12      1998    1       38
> 13      1998    9       39
> 14      1998    4       40
> 15      1998    6       41
> 16      1998    8       42
> 17      1998    5       43
> 18      1998    8       44
> 19      1998    10      45
> 20      1998    10      46
> 21      1998    20      47
> 22      1998    23      48
> 23      1998    17      49
> 24      1998    25      50
> 25      1998    31      51
> 26      1998    26      52
> 27      1998    37      53
>
>
> The data continue so that yydx continues until 2010.
>
> What I would like to do and am having trouble doing, is reshape the data so that I have year running down the dataset and age at diag running across the data set like thus
>
>         16      17      18      19 and so on
> 1999 5  0    14
> 1999    1       2       21
> 2000    3       1       19
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions please?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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