it worked...
I am so happy that I joined the Statalist.
Thank you,
Pritpal
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: How to spolit variable info to multiple variables
That is an answer to a different question, as I
understand it. (Nor is this specific question anything to
do with -reshape-, as another answer had it.)
A value of 145 in this example means that the individual belongs
in categories 1, 4 and 5. Thus the use of a numeric variable
is incidental: it could also be string.
forval i = 1/5 {
gen varA`i' = cond(index(string(varA), "`i'"), 1, .)
}
is my suggestion.
. findit multiple responses
turns up various material including
FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dealing with multiple
responses
4/05 How do I deal with multiple responses?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/multresp.html
SJ-5-1 st0082 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tabulation of multiple
responses
Q1/05 SJ 5(1):92--122
introduces new commands for the computation of one- and
two-way tables of multiple responses
SJ-3-1 pr0008 Speaking Stata: On structure & shape: the case of mult.
resp.
Q1/03 SJ 3(1):81--99 (no
commands)
discussion of data manipulations for multiple response data
Nick
[email protected]
SamL
> Try the -tab- command. Specifically, if I have variable
> Married, which
> has several categories (say, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), I can type:
>
> tab1 Married, generate(marx)
>
> and that will produce 5 variables, marx1, marx2, marx3, and
> so on, with
> marx1=1 for all cases where Married=1, and so on.
Pritpal Marjara
> > Is there any command in stata that can make separate
> variables for multiple
> > coded responses.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > VarA (numerical field) is coded with following responses:
> >
> > 145
> > 235
> > 1256
> > 16
> > 14
> >
> > Now I want to create six variables with the names VarA1
> VarA2 VarA3 VarA4
> > VarA5 VarA6 and the data from VarA to be transferred/copied
> to the newly
> > created variables (sysmis, if the variable has no code for
> the new variable;
> > VarA2 VarA3 and VarA6 will have missing values for first
> row of VarA).
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