--- Murali Kuchibhotla <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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's 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?
No, and for good reason. Somehow you need to tell Stata how you want to
change your variables. I can imagine a way when you wanted to apply the
same rule to five different variables, but even that would probably not
be worth the effort.
-- Maarten
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