I tried that and it said "type mismatch"
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Jose Valderrama wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> g language2=language=="English"
>
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> De: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Michael
> Horowitz
> Enviado el: Viernes, 13 de Mayo de 2005 11:15 a.m.
> Para: [email protected]
> Asunto: st: Converting string variable name into numbers
>
> I am currently working with a survey dataset that includes responses
> from
> participants regarding their dominant language. The answers are string
> variables, since they are "english", "spanish", etc. Basically the data
> looks like this
>
> Obs1 English
> Obs2 Spanish
> Obs3 French
> Obs4 English
>
>
> I would like to create dummy variables where every "english" response
> gets
> coded a 1 and other responses are coded a 0, do the same thing for
> "spanish", etc. .
>
> Any ideas? Thank you in advance for the assistance.
>
> Michael Horowitz
>
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