Does anyone know how to turn labels into values? I have a dataset with two variables that refer to countries that I want to match, but they are coded differently. So, the data set has two numeric variables:
id country nation
1 20 15
2 23 11
3 14 20
where the labels are defined differently for the values in "country" and "nation" -
id country nation
1 Israel Iran
2 Iran Israel
3 Turkey Turkey
if the labels can be fixed into the variables I can compare them, but as they are, I can not, because the same countries have different values. The codes do not seem to be in any particular order either. Any ideas? Thank you.
Alexis
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