IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/tsj/stataj/v3y2003i1p81-99.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Speaking Stata: On structure and shape: the case of multiple responses

Author

Listed:
  • Nicholas J. Cox

    (University of Durham, UK)

  • Ulrich Kohler

    (Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany)

Abstract

A frequent problem in data management is that datasets may not arrive in the best structure for many analyses, so that it may be necessary to restructure the data in some way. The particular case of multiple response data is discussed at length, with special attention to different possible structures; the generation of new variables holding the data in different form; valuable inbuilt string and egen functions; using foreach and forvalues to loop over lists; and the use of the reshape command. Tabulations and graphics for such data are also reviewed brießy. Copyright 2003 by Stata Corporation.

Suggested Citation

  • Nicholas J. Cox & Ulrich Kohler, 2003. "Speaking Stata: On structure and shape: the case of multiple responses," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 3(1), pages 81-99, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:3:y:2003:i:1:p:81-99
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0008
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ben Jann, 2005. "Tabulation of multiple responses," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 5(1), pages 93-122, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:3:y:2003:i:1:p:81-99. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F. Baum or Lisa Gilmore (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.stata-journal.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.