Re: st: Generating State Dummies

[<gaetano.coletta@casaccia.enea.it>]

You con use xi command and it will generate n-1 dummies 
for your categorical variable.
Try typing:
xi i.state

Bye,
Gaetano


On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:49:52 -0400
 "ALICE DOBSON" <alice_dobson@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Statalist members,
> I have a panel data with each firm located in a 
> particular state in the US.
> firmid year state var1 var2 var3..........
> 0001  1992  ME
> 0001  1993  ME
> 0001  1994  ME
> 0001  1995  ME
> 0002  1992  MA
> 0003  1993  MA
> 0004  1994  MA
> 0005  1995  MA
>
> How can I generate a state dummy for each observation?
> Best,
> Alice
>
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