st: recoding a long-level categorical variable

[Jonathan Furszyfer <furszfer@princeton.edu>]

Dear All,

For methodological reasons, I have to create a 96-level categorical variable, say x, where x={1,2,3,...,96}. The categories of x, however, are conditioned on other variable, y.

y is a continuous variable. More specifically, y=[5760,7230]. N=1,450,708.

In order to generate x, then, I used recode:

recode y (7215 / 7230 = 96 )  ///
                        (7200/ 7215 = 95 )  ///
                        (7185/ 7200 = 94 )  ///
                        .
                        (5760/5775 = 1), generate (x)

In other words, using recode takes 96 lines of coding (or less if you add several "(#/#)" in a single line). 
I was wondering if there is an easier method to simplify 96 lines of coding, probably using loops, foreach and/or forvalues.

Thank you very much!

Best,
Jon-


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