st: Converting continuous to indicator variables

["Deborah Garvey" <DGarvey@scu.edu>]

Hi, all.

SAS has a nice way of creating indicator variables from continuous variables.  Let's say I want an age indicator equal to 1 for respondents ages 25 to 34 and 0 otherwise. (Missing data are not an issue here.)  In SAS I would simply type:

age 2534 = (25 le age le 34);

In STATA, however, the only way I know to create the same variable is to use gen:

gen age2534 = (age>=25 & age < 35)

Question:  Is there a better way to generate indicator variables from continuous ones?

Thanks,

Deb Garvey

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Deborah Garvey, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
Kenna Hall
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA  95053
408/554-4156
408/554-2331 (FAX)
dgarvey@scu.edu    
http://lsb.scu.edu/~dgarvey
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Hi, all.

 

SAS has a nice way of creating indicator variables from continuous variables.  Let's say I want an age indicator equal to 1 for respondents ages 25 to 34 and 0 otherwise. (Missing data are not an issue here.)  In SAS I would simply type:

 

age 2534 = (25 le age le 34);

 

In STATA, however, the only way I know to create the same variable is to use gen:

 

gen age2534 = (age>=25 & age < 35)

Question:  Is there a better way to generate indicator variables from continuous ones?

 

Thanks,

 

Deb Garvey

 

******************************
Deborah Garvey, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
Kenna Hall
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA  95053
408/554-4156
408/554-2331 (FAX)
dgarvey@scu.edu   
http://lsb.scu.edu/~dgarvey
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