RE: st: RE: Generating dummies

["ALICE DOBSON" <alice_dobson@hotmail.com>]

Thanks a lot. The idea is to create 55 dummies [for 56 states] so that I can 
code 1 for a firm located in any state (say) Michigan for all years. This is 
to control for performance differences across firms attributed to their 
differences in locations.


> From: <Anna-Cristina.DADDIO-DEVAUX@oecd.org>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: RE: Generating dummies
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:35:54 +0200
>
> I think this is a way, but certainly there are others much better
> encode state, ge(id)
> tab id, ge(st)
> with your dataset this will give
>
> . tab id, ge(st)
>
>          id |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>          MA |          4       50.00       50.00
>          ME |          4       50.00      100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
>       Total |          8      100.00
>
> anna
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of ALICE DOBSON
> Sent: 21 June 2005 17:09
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Generating dummies
>
>
> Dear Statalist members,
> I have a panel data with each firm (representing a panel) 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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