do you want this as a number: gen age12=(100*age1)+age2
or as a string: gen str age12=string(age1)+string(age2)?
Rich
"Rodrigo Brice�o" wrote:
>
> Hello Stata listers. I was looking in the Faq and did not find any topic
> related with my question. I think is very simple. I need to combine the
> values provided in two variables to make a new variable. For example:
> age1=4
> age2=99
>
> New variable=499 where the first number represents a code and the second the
> age recorded depending of the first code.
>
> Thanks for your precious time!
>
> Regards
>
> Rodrigo
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