Yep that was the one, thank you!
best regards
ziad
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Olalekan Uthman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Try
>
> tab education, gen(education)
>
> OR
>
> xi i.education
>
>
> Olalekan Uthman
>
>
>
> --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]>
>> Subject: st: Command related to putting categories into separate columns
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 7:53 AM
>> Hi!
>> I used to recall this command and I have been trying to
>> figure it out
>> again for 10 days now, so gave up and will try to put it on
>> the list
>> for tips?
>>
>> I have variable 'education' with 4 levels of
>> education: lev1, lev2,
>> lev3 and lev4
>> The one line command can create new variables: _lev1,
>> _lev2, _lev3 and
>> _lev4 with values (0/1)
>>
>> I know I could do gen _lev1=1 if education==lev1 etc... but
>> I thought
>> it will be nice to just use one liner for it.
>>
>> Thank you in advance and best regards
>> ziad
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