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Re: st: loop
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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Re: st: loop
Date
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:22:06 +0500
tab cat12, gen(newcat12)
will give you those required variables (categorical or dummies).
HTH
Anees
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
> the variable cat12 takes the values from 1 to 12. I want to create 12
> different scalars or variables for each cat. The problem is that each
> scalar must take the values correspondent to the log of the number of
> obs in each cat (weighted) since i have to write an index which needs
> those numbers. I tried with forvalues but i did not succeed!
> Ps: cat12 is a variable for occupational categories (from 1 to 12). In
> the index i put the weighted values (weight available in my dataset).
> Thanks
>
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> Doctoral school of Economic Policy
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Attock 43600, Pakistan
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