Dear Svend,
Thanks so much for your quick help. I highly appreciate it. I am sorry
for not being specific in my question. Actually, there is no "rule"
relating the old values to the new values. E.g., 101 replaced by
65687; 102 by 65686; 103 by 73128 and so on. Thus, I can use:
recode id (101=65687) (102=65686) (103=73128) and so on
Alternatively, I can create another file containing information on the
new values of ID. Then, I match the new file and the original file.
Is there any better way of doing this?
Thanks so much and Have A Great Day!
On 1/31/07, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
Quang wrote:
I have the following simple data:
permit
101
101
102
102
103
103
104
104
105
105
105
....
There are about 300 observations. I would like to replace 101 by
65687, 102 by 65686, and so on. ....
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If I understand your rule correctly, it is simple:
generate permit2 = 65788-permit
Strong recommendation: Create a NEW variable, leaving the original
variable unchanged.
Svend
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