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Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
Date
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:58:29 +0500
For confirmation only, the -xtset- result as
xtset name2 date
panel variable: name2 (unbalanced)
time variable: date, 1990 to 1993
delta: 1 unit
Hope that worked for you, Dawood!
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Muhammad Anees <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, the first suggestion fails as the string variable is nonnumeric
> and stata would say "name contains nonnumeric characters", rather you
> can try
>
> encode name, generate(name2)
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Muhammad Anees <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>> ---------------------------
>> Muhammad Anees
>> Assistant Professor
>> COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
>> Attock 43600, Pakistan
>> www.aneconomist.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards
> ---------------------------
> Muhammad Anees
> Assistant Professor
> COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
> Attock 43600, Pakistan
> www.aneconomist.com
>
--
Regards
---------------------------
Muhammad Anees
Assistant Professor
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Attock 43600, Pakistan
www.aneconomist.com
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