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Re: st: converting string to numerals
From
Jonas Krüger <[email protected]>
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Re: st: converting string to numerals
Date
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:48:50 +0100
Did you thought about regexr? should be pretty easy to find patterns
and replace them. http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regexm()
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> -encode- does not understand English in the way that you do. My guess
> is that it did not encode your values randomly at all, but as
>
> 1 agree
> 2 disagree
> 3 neither ...
> 4 strongly agree
> 5 strongly disagree
>
> which is an alphabetical order.
>
> What you need is covered by the syntax and documentation of -encode-,
> namely to define your labels in advance:
>
> label define mylabels -2 "strongly disagree" <and so forth>
> encode var, gen(var1) label(mylabels)
>
> while at the same time using more evocative variable names.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 20 November 2013 19:07, ramesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a very basic question about coding string variables. My variable is
>> expressed as strongly disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree,
>> and strongly agree. I want to code them -2 if strongly disagree, -1 if
>> disagree, 0 if neither disagree nor agree, 1 if agree, and 2 if strongly
>> agree. I used encode(var), gen(var1), but it coded the scales randomly. Is
>> there any direct way to preserve the order in data coding?
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