RE: st: Panel Data Construction

[AGAOGLU Enes <s1236623@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

In Stata, Date GAR(P) GAR(MV) .... are copied as variable names to the data editor after I copy paste from Excel.

If I do not keep them as variable names, then variable names will be var1 var2 ... as default and Date GAR(P) ... will be copied as values to the first cell.

I don't know which one is easier to manipulate.


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of Nick Cox [njcoxstata@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 June 2013 21:43
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Panel Data Construction

Show us your variable names please.  (NB "Stata" not "STATA".)

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 18 June 2013 21:34, Edward Crawley <edward.crwly@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to convert my dataset to panel data, but since I am new to
> Stata I couldn't figure how to do it. My dataset is as follows;
>
> Date GAR(P) GAR(MV) GAR(MB) AKB(P) AKB(MV) AKB(MB) ISC(P) ISC(MV) ISC(MB)
> Jan10 0.53 110 1.71 0.63 230 1.95 1.7 150 4.6
> Feb10 0.47 120 1.54 0.55 205 1.71 1.63 100 4.43
>
>
> GAR, AKB, ISC are the firms' names and P=price, MV=market value,
> MB=market-to-book ratio.
>
>
> At the end, I would like to have something like this;
>
> Firm Date P MV MB
> GAR Jan10 0.53 110 1.71
> GAR Feb10 0.47 120 1.54
> AKB Jan10 0.63 230 1.95
> AKB Feb10 0.55 205 1.71
> ISC Jan10 1.7 150 4.6
> ISC Feb10 1.63 100 4.43
>
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