Re: st: Converting string variable name into numbers

["Andres E. Hernando" <hernando@fas.harvard.edu>]

Hi,
         The command -xi- does exactly that.

Best,
Andres.

Quoting Michael Horowitz, who wrote:
-------Original Message-------
> 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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