Hi Clive,
Yes, I meant a way of a combination. But the command that you have given me
doesn't seem to be working. I keep getting the error message : invalid syntax.
I have year of work from 1987 - 1996 (=total 10 years)and 9 region.
.tab yearw
yearw | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
1987 | 23,125 10.83 10.83
1988 | 21,510 10.08 20.91
1989 | 23,334 10.93 31.84
1990 | 23,110 10.83 42.67
1991 | 22,774 10.67 53.34
1992 | 22,235 10.42 63.75
1993 | 21,233 9.95 73.70
1994 | 20,747 9.72 83.42
1995 | 17,606 8.25 91.66
1996 | 17,793 8.34 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 213,467 100.00
.tab region
census |
region | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
11 | 17,436 8.17 8.17
12 | 30,363 14.22 22.39
21 | 31,048 14.54 36.94
22 | 18,448 8.64 45.58
31 | 34,182 16.01 61.59
32 | 9,581 4.49 66.08
33 | 19,520 9.14 75.22
41 | 21,222 9.94 85.17
42 | 31,667 14.83 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 213,467 100.00
I was trying with the following syntax:
egen, group(year)
egen, group(region)
/Tharshini
On 2009-08-05, at 06:33, Clive Nicholas wrote:
> Tharshini Thangavelu wrote:
>
>> How do I create year and region fixed effect dummy variables?
>
> If you mean by way of a combination, then -egen, group()- will do the trick.
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