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Re: st: encode command
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Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]>
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Re: st: encode command
Date
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:30:44 +0200
the variable you generated, country_1, has those numbers already no?
input str10 country
Greece
Germany
Spain
Italy
end
list
encode country, gen(country_1)
list
list, nolabel
--
010100100110111101101110011011100110100101100101
On Friday, October 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> Using list country_1, nolabel, I manage to visualize the numbers in the main windows of results, but what if I want to generate a new variable that includes these numbers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Caterina
>
>
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:58:59 +0100
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> Subject: Re: st: encode command
>
> list country_1, nolabel
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM, <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
>
> > In the dataset I am using the names assigned to different countries are strings. My variable name is "country"
> > I use the command "encode country, gen(country_1)" in order to transform the string into numbers
> > But still country_1 shows as a name and not a number. What if I would to visualize countr_1 as a column of numbers in the dataset?
>
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