It might still be a matter of taste, but, for many codings I think
michael.blasniks approach is very powerfull---at least for documentation.
Also remember that you can create your dataset within the original do-file, if
you don't want to split the documentation into different files:
-----------------------mydofile.do
use nation, clear
<commands>
sort nation
// Create Origin-Variable
preserve
input nation origin
1 3
2 3
3 3
4 3
5 2
6 2
7 2
8 1
...
141 10
end
sort nation
save origin, replace
restore
// Merge Origin Variable to nation-data
merge nation using origin
exit
----------------------------------------------
[email protected] wrote:
> OR just use a recode or is this missing the point?
>
> gen origin = natio
> recode origin 3=7 8 12 69 139 141=10 14=8 ... etc
>
> cheers
> Ade
>
>
>
>
> "Michael Blasnik"
> <michael.blasnik@verizon.
> net>
> To:
> [email protected] Sent by:
> owner-statalist@hsphsun2. cc:
> harvard.edu Subject: st: Re:
> multiple )))brackets, is there a more efficient way?
>
>
> 25-May-2004 14:45
> Please respond to
> [email protected]
> d.edu
>
>
>
>
>
> The suggestion to use inlist may be a step in the right direction, but if
> you have a coding for every county in the world or any list with more than
> a few dozen codings, I would think that you should create a dataset with
> the
> codings (often this coding information is available in a way that makes the
> dataset creation fairly straightforward) and then use -merge- to bring them
> in.
>
> sort nation
> merge nation using nationcodes
>
> You can always list the nationcode file to document what the mapping is.
>
> Michael Blasnik
> [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Annelies Vos" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:35 AM
> Subject: st: multiple )))brackets, is there a more efficient way?
>
> > Dear all,
> > in the FAQs I found the following very useful recommendation:
> > instead of:
> > . generate byte a = 1 if y <= 20
> > . replace a = 2 if y > 20 & y <= 30
> > . replace a = 3 if y > 30 & y <= 40
> > . replace a = 4 if y > 40 & y <.
> >
> > do the following:
> >
> > . #delim ;
> > . generate byte a =
> > cond(y<=20, 1,
> > cond(y<=30, 2,
> > cond(y<=40, 3,
> > cond(y<., 4,
> > . ))));
> >
> > However, the variable I want to use it for (nationality) has many
> > values (every country in the world), which should be recoded into
> > countrygroups. I don't really like the idea of having to count the
> > number of "opening brackets": "(" , to know with how many "closing
> > brackets": ")" I should end. Is there any easier solution for this?
> >
> > to explain a piece of my syntax:
> > > #delim;
> > > generate byte origin =
> > > cond(natio==3, 7,
> > > cond(natio==8, 10,
> > > cond(natio==12, 10,
> > > cond(natio==14, 8,
> > > cond(natio==28, -9,
> > > cond(natio==54, 6,
> > > cond(natio==69, 10,
> > > cond(natio==82, 8,
> > > cond(natio==139, 10,
> > > cond(natio==141, 10,
> >
> > ...etcetera
> >
> > ...which I would like to end on another way than:
> > > . ))))))))))
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> >
> > Annelies Vos
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