RESHAPE8: Stata module to reshape while preserving variable labels

Bill Rising ()
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Bill Rising: University of Louisville

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: reshape8 improves reshape by preserving variable labels as much as possible when switching back and forth between long and wide dataset formats. Hence, taking a dataset from long to wide and back to long will result in getting the same dataset labelling back again. When going from wide to long, there are some labels which are not defined; if they are then defined and the dataset is reshaped multiple times, they will be persistent.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8
Keywords: reshape; data management; variable labels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2003-12-21
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