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st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.


From   "Radwin, David" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
Date   Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:37:12 -0400

Stefan,

Does this answer your question?

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/apply-labels-after-reshape/

David
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David Radwin
Senior Research Associate
Education Studies Division
RTI International
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Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-665-8274

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Stefan Schöftner"
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a
> Variable.
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Dear Statalist subscribers,
> 
> As a fellow reader, i now dare to post my first own question.
> I got actually a rather simple looking issue but it seems not doable also
> i worked on it for several days
> 
> I got a  sample of a Data file looking something like this:
> 
> Long FORM:
> ID´s repeat therefor i need the wide form.
> 
> Obs.          ID       Title             Amount                Code
> 1              xxx       abc              12345                   yy1
> 2              xxx       bcd              54321                   yy2
> 3              xxx       cda              43215                   yy3
> 4              xxx       acb              32154                   yy4
> 5              xxx       cad              21543                   yy4
> 
> 
> I use a reshape command to bring this dataset into wide form
> so it looks like this
> 
> Wide Form:
> 
> Obs.          ID        yy1      yy2    yy3    yy4      yy5        Title
> 
> 
> 1              xxx                                                  abc
> 2              xxx                                                  bcd
> 3              xxx      AMOUNT ---------------------Amount          cda
> 4              xxx                                                  acb
> 5              xxx                                                  cad
> 
> What I now desire, would be that the variable "Title" be converted into
> the label text for the according variables yy1-yy5-yyx.
> yyx because the entire dataset consists of several 10.000 observations
> The variable "code" itself would be enough for identification but since im
> going to work a lot more with this sample the change in Label would help
> me quite a bit.
> 
> At the current point in time i just drop "Title" and deal with the Coding.
> I would really appreciate any input on how to solve this issue.
> 
> Best Regards and Thanks in Advance
> Stefan


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