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| From | Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable |
| Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:45:53 +0500 |
destring name, gen(new) should do as the names appear to be string variables On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dawood Ashraf <dawood_ashraf@yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > -- Regards --------------------------- Muhammad Anees Assistant Professor COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Attock 43600, Pakistan www.aneconomist.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/