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RE: st: RE: help with encode
Hi,
In addition to all the useful comments people have made.. Here is a nother way.
Try
qui xi: reg i.gender
This will create a variable _Igender_1 with zeros and ones
Hope this helps
rajesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miranda Kim
Sent: 24 July 2009 09:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: help with encode
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
> [email protected]
>
> 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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