RE: st: RE: Generating dummies

[Ted Anagnoson <anag999@silcom.com>]

The more serious answer to this is that statistics by state often include 
56 jurisdictions, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the (American, not British) 
Virgin Islands, the Trust Territories of the Pacific, the District of 
Columbia (Washington, D.C.), and one more I can't remember off the top of 
my head.

Perhaps it is Scotland.

Ted Anagnoson


At 08:25 PM 6/21/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:

> It is interesting to learn, from a surprising source,
> that the United States has recently added six more
> states. Do their people have votes? Do they know about their
> new status? Or this just a short-hand for Puerto Rico,
> etc., etc.?
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> ALICE DOBSON
>
> > 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.
> >
>
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