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Re: st: combining two variables of different type
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: combining two variables of different type
Date
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:33:28 +0000
You haven't explained what types your variables are. Perhaps you want
concatenation, in which case -egen, concat()- is convenient.
Otherwise,
gen combined = string(numeric_var) + strvar
is a recipe for combining two variables as if they were both string.
Nick
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Kristen Shorette <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I combine two variables of different type. For example, I am using
> a panel data set where countries are the units of analysis and I want a
> variable CountryYear (AFG1985). I have the countries and years each as
> variables but when I use "gen countryyear=country+year" I get the error
> "type mismatch".
>
> Thanks,
> Kristen
>
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