Well, -recode- does allow a varlist, but then the rules applied must match.
If that is not the case, you need five separate lines of recode statements
for your five vars. I cannot see that as a drawback, though...
Martin Weiss
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murali
Kuchibhotla
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:41 PM
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Subject: st: recoding sets of variables
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.
Murali Kuchibhotla
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