The Stata manual example somehow evokes
the cuisine available in College Station, TX,
modulo MadCows.
Richard Gates has already answered your main
question. I just to comment on a detail as
below. Another way to get these variables
is with a loop:
forval i = 1/6 {
gen kid`i' = (restaurant == `i') * kids
}
Another way is by
separate kids, by(restaurant) gen(kid)
mvencode `r(varlist)', mv(0)
Your code is fine and clear (and, notably,
going to be no more efficient than either
of the above). But other ways of doing it
may be of interest to those who look at
an example like this and think "Surely
there is another way to do this!".
Nick
[email protected]
Matthias Grueninger
> gen kid1=(restaurant==1)*kids
> gen kid2=(restaurant==2)*kids
> gen kid3=(restaurant==3)*kids
> gen kid4=(restaurant==4)*kids
> gen kid5=(restaurant==5)*kids
> gen kid6=(restaurant==6)*kids
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