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RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
Date
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:35:03 +0100
Eric's spirit is exactly right, but those over 40 were taught the alphabet....
"Alabama" comes before "Alaska", modulo Sarah Palin. "Arizona" also comes before "Arkansas".
Nick
[email protected]
Eric Booth
Something like this:
****************!
**set up**
sysuse census, clear
keep state2 pop
encode state2 , g(state3)
lab li
**********
lab def fullstates 1 "Alaska" 2 "Alabama" 3 "Arkansas" ///
4 "Arizona" 5 "California" 6 "Colorado", modify
**and so on...
lab val state3 fullstates
lab li
li state3 state2 //<-- make sure these line up
****************!
~ Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Benhoen2 wrote:
> 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?
>
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