Dear statalisters,
this may be an elementary question but I could not find a solution in
Stata documentation and the list archives, so here I am...
I'm working (Stata 9/SE) with a quite large dataset (>300.000 records)
with observation on individuals. Each individual may be related to
more than one record. The structure is as following:
Teresio 0 1 0
Mario 1 2 0
Teresio 1 1 2
....
I'ld like to convert a string variable "Name" into a unique numerical
identifier and obtain something like this:
1 0 1 0
2 1 2 0
1 1 1 2
....
Is there any way to do this job in Stata?
I've tryed with the encode command, but Stata stopped because there
are more than 65000 unique values (by the way: I don't care about
labels ...).
Any help would be appreciated,
Teresio
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