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st: RE: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
Date
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:21:08 +0200
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You want to take a look at
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0009
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benhoen2
Sent: Montag, 6. September 2010 23:17
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
I am a new user - please forgive me.
I have a list of numeric IDs for states (stateid) with abbreviated labels
attached (stname). I would like to create a new string variable made us of
the unabbreviated state names but based on the stateid variable.
I have tried the following:
1) recode stateid (1="Alabama"), (2="Arkansas"), ..., generate(statename)
2) recode stateid (1="Alabama"), (2="Arkansas"), ..., strgen(statename)
3) generate state="Alabama" if stateid=1
among other nonsensical permutations. Is there any way to do this using
recode, or something analogous?
I suspect the answer is very simple but I have not been able to figure it
out. Any help?
Ben
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