Re: st: generate 3.000 dummies

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:08 PM 10/24/2006, Cristian Mackenna wrote:
> If I have a database like this:
>
> id_place        id_person
> 1       1
> 1       2
> 1       3
> 2       4
> 2       5
> 2       6
> 3       7
> 3       8
> 3       9
> �       �
> 3000    200000
>
> Is there any fast way to generate a dummy for every of the 3.000 id_place
I am not sure I understand the question, but perhaps you want something like

tab id_place, gen(idpl)

See help tabulate oneway

If that isn't what you want, maybe you could give 
examples of when cases should be coded 1 as opposed to 0.

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