Re: st: Encode string variables without following the default alphanumeric ordering

[Adama Konseiga <akonseiga@gmail.com>]

Thank you Joe and Nick for your help.

1- Joe: Your suggestion was perfect and it solves my problem. The
variable looks indeed as follow:

string_activity: Park excursion     |
                               |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
                                    |        129       14.04       14.04
0 - Activity not interesting at all |         44        4.79       18.82
                                  1 |          8        0.87       19.70
     10 - Very interesting activity |        119       12.95       32.64
                                  2 |         25        2.72       35.36
                                  3 |         28        3.05       38.41
                                  4 |         33        3.59       42.00
                                  5 |        109       11.86       53.86
                                  6 |         79        8.60       62.46
                                  7 |        129       14.04       76.50
                                  8 |        134       14.58       91.08
                                  9 |         82        8.92      100.00
------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
                              Total |        919      100.00

2- Nick: Thanks for your comments as well as the following resource
that was quite helpful
(http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/116018/2/sjart_pr0006.pdf)

Best regards

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Adama Konseiga
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