My last reply got cut off.
You are right. I should have known that. I just haven't used Stata this
much recently and forgot some of the basic commands.
My apologies and thanks
Don Spady
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Spady
Sent: July 10, 2007 11:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: Help with destring
much recently and forgot all about it.
Many thanks.
Don Spady
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Coveney
Sent: July 10, 2007 11:31 AM
To: Statalist
Subject: Re: st: Help with destring
Donald Spady wrote:
I have data that are string data and want to convert them to numeric. I
would expect destring to do this but it doesn't. For example, here is a
table
tab Worker_Type
worker Freq. Percent Cum.
Administration 12 9.16 9.16
Allied 44 33.59 42.75
Attending 26 19.85 62.60
Clerk 9 6.87 69.47
Med Student 17 12.98 82.44
Resident/Fellow 23 17.56 100.00
Total 131 100.00
The values are all strings.
When I do
Destring worker, generate(nworker)
I get the message
destring worker, gen(nworker)
worker contains nonnumeric characters; no generate r; t=0.02 10:31:13
It seems to me that if I want to convert a string, that implicitly means
there are nonnumeric characters. What am I doing wrong? I am using
Stata10.
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Roughly stated, -destring- converts string numerals into numerical data.
It's not clear what you're expecting the numerical data version of worker to
be, but it seems as if you want something like -encode-.
Joseph Coveney
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