bw wants to recode the strings 'high', 'low', 'medium',
'vhigh', etc to numerical values e.g. high = 1, low=2.
I guess a better choice for these four categories would be:
1 low; 2 medium; 3 high; 4 vhigh
To get that, use encode withe the label option:
. label define aaalabel 1 "low" 2 "medium" 3 "high" 4 "vhigh"
. encode aaastr , generate(aaa) label(aaalabel)
Hope this helps
Svend
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Svend Juul
Institut for Folkesundhed, Afdeling for Epidemiologi
(Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology)
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DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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