At 01:42 PM 8/1/2005 -0400, Jumin Kim wrote:
The force option would make them missing, right?
I actually need the data. This particular variable contains the
verbatim response, which I need Stata to recode into numericals so
that I can categorize them.
Please advise. Thank you.
jumin
How about something like
replace var1 = "99" if var1 =="NA"
destring var1, gen(var2)
You'll have to decide in advance how to recode the verbatim responses.
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