9.4 Wide format data

  • Wideformat: Individuals/units in rows, Repeated observations across time/variables in columns (see Table 9.1)
  • Important: Distinguish unit from observations of that unit
    • Observations of same unit are distributed across columns
Table 9.1: Wide format
unit trust.2006 trust.2007 Victimization.2006 Victimization.2007
Peter 1 1 0 1
Paul 5 5 0 1
Pedro 6 6 1 0