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st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
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Dawood Ashraf <[email protected]>
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st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
Date
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 05:41:55 -0800 (PST)
I am trying to generate a new identifier variable based on names of individuals. The shape of the data is as follows:
Name Date
Mark 1990
Mark 1991
Mark 1992
Marry 1990
Marry 1991
Marry 1992
Marry 1993
Chris 1993
Bob 1992
Now I want to generate a new variable, Identifier which assign unique number to Mark, Marry, Chris and Bob as 1,2,3,4.
I have looked in the help but could not find anything suitable. I have seen once a question similar to this on STATA and applied myself but somehow skipped from my mind. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Dawood
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