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After your -encode- command, type
*************
ta H
ta H, nolabel
*************
and note the difference. -destring- is your command of choice, and pay
attention to Eva`s remark for the missings.
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: Re: st: AW: problem with the generate command
Dear Martin,
Thank you very much for all your help since the beginning I use Stata.
Here are my data (just the beginning!):
country healthinit H health
Afghanistan 13.00 13.00 23.32
Albania 116.00 116.00 16.96
Algeria 76.00 76.00 169.6
American Samoa .. .. 1.06
Andorra 1922.17 1922.17 54.06
Angola 24.00 24.00 72.08
Antigua and Barbuda 492.00 492.00 138.86
Argentina 283.00 283.00 89.04
Armenia 53.00 53.00 145.22
Aruba .. .. 1.06
Healthinit is the health expenditure per capita in current dollars. It is
a string variable. It comes from the wdi database. As I want them in
euros, and that the exchange rate is 1.06 (year is 2003), I wrote to
stata:
encode healthinit, gen(H)
generate health=1.06*H
H is a long variable.
Danke schön für die Helfe!
Isabelle
>
> <>
>
> A bug in -generate- would be weird indeed. Give an excerpt of your data,
> and
> show us exactly what you typed and what Stata made of it...
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
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> Von: [email protected]
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. März 2009 10:08
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: problem with the generate command
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a health expenditure variable in current dollars, called H. It is a
> numeric variable ("long"). I called it "H". I want to convert it in euros,
> e.g to multiply by 1,6 so I write in my do-file:
> "gen health=1.6*H"
> I am very surprised because the results are wrong. It is very strange. For
> instance:
> H=13.00 and Health=23.32 (first observation)
> or: H=116.00 and Health=16.96 (2d one)
> or: H=76.00 and Health=169.6
>
> Thank you very much for help
> Best regards
>
> Isabelle
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