Re: st: recoding sets of variables

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Yes, you need a separate -recode- command for every distinct recoding 
pattern. Any variables that share a recoding pattern can be put 
together in one -recode- command.
This doesn't seem excessively complicated.
--David

At 09:40 AM 7/30/2008, Murali Kuchibhotla wrote:

> Hello,
>       I am trying to recode the values for 5 different variables, each
> according to a different rule, i.e,for the first variable I want to 
> change the
> missing values to 0, for the second variable the 2' to 4's, and so forth. Is
> there an efficient way to do this in Stata? I have looked at the 
> help for both
> the recode and replace commands, and from what I can tell I would require
> multiple lines of code(one for each variable) to accomplish this 
> task.Can this
> task be further simplified? Thanks.
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