Thank you all so much. Worked perfectly!
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Nick Cox wrote:
> -tabulate, generate()-
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Michael Horowitz
>
> > 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. .
>
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