Re: st: RE: help with encode

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

I tried this but couldn't make it work, as it then automatically encodes 
the variables with 2's and 3's...

Nick Cox wrote:
> In addition to other answers the direct answer to the second question is
> "Yes": 
>
> label def female 0 "m" 1 "f" 
> encode gender, gen(female) label(female)
>
> It would no harm to check on any missings: 
>
> tab gender if !inlist(female, 0, 1) 
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Miranda Kim
>
> How can I efficiently convert string variables (such as gender with 
> values 'f' 'm') into binary 0/1 variables?
> Can I fiddle with encode so that it codes 0/1 instead of 1/2?
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