st: Re: generating dummies

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Actually as http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip5-2.htm  Table 1 shows, 
the 50 US states+DC are mapped into the integers 1..56, with several 
missing values (e.g., no state 3 nor 7). There are nine additional 
codes associated to various Pacific Islands, PR, and US VI.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> 	I'd bet on a less-than-completely careful application of FIPS
> codes...!  ;)
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