foreach c in f s a u b {
gen `c' = substr(market,1,1) == "`c'"
}
More generally,
gen firstchar = substr(market,1,1)
levels firstchar, local(chars)
foreach c of local chars {
gen `c' = firstchar == "`c'"
}
Nick
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Tumur Gunchinmaa
> I have another
> question to ask about creating dummy.
> I have a string variable called market (in the long format) which has
> 19 different string "values" such as
> f1,f2,...f6,s1,...,s5,a1,...,a5,u1,u2,b1.
> I would like to create 5 dummies which would group f1-f6 into
> dummy f, s1-s5 into dummy s, a1-a5 into dummy a and so on.
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