Thanks, Martin,
I had come close, but couldn't nail it!
Ada, I couldn't get your code running, but thanks anyway.
Tom.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> No need to -encode- beforehand (unless you want to)...
>
>
>
> *************
> clear*
>
> input str2 citycode
> "NY"
> "LA"
> "HO"
> "SF"
> "CH"
> end
>
> compress
> list, noobs
>
> levelsof citycode
>
> foreach lev in `r(levels)'{
> gen byte dummy`lev'=citycode=="`lev'"
> }
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
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> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: dummy variable name from a string variable
>
> I want to create 10 dummy variables based on one string variable
> "city", which lists the city codes (like NY) of 10 cities. I can do
> this simply by (after encoding the city variable):
>
> tabulate city, gen(citydummy)
>
>
> This would create citydummy1 to citydummy10. What I want is to suffix
> each dummy with city codes, listed in the variable 'city' , so I have
> the dummy variables named from, for example, citydummyNY to
> citydummyAM.
>
> The city variable has multiple occurrences of each code. I have had a
> look at -renvars- but I don't think that alone will solve my problem.
>
> Any ideas?
> Tom.
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