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Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable
Date
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:52:59 -0400
then -decode- it is one option
however, if it is already numeric doesn't it already meet what you want?
if not, what is wrong with it?
Rich
On 3/19/14, 10:49 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> Thanks for your reply. Variable 1 is already encoded....it's a long
> variable now.
> Pati
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard Goldstein
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> it looks like variable 1 is a string variable so you want the -encode-
>> command; when you read the help file, pay attention to the "label" option
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On 3/19/14, 10:34 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Following problem:
>>> I have variable1 with different values (AL, BS, SF, ZK...etc.) and
>>> want to create another variable with a list of numbers reaching from
>>> e.g. 1-100;
>>> For each value in variable1 there should be the same number in
>>> variable2; it should look like that in the end:
>>>
>>> Variable 1 Variable 2
>>> AL 1
>>> AL 1
>>> AL 1
>>> BS 2
>>> BS 2
>>> BS 2
>>> BS 2
>>> BS 2
>>> SF 3
>>> SF 3
>>> ZG 4
>>> etc etc.
>>>
>>> I tried to use egen variable2=fill(1(1)100) also in combination with
>>> foreach; somehow generates values from 1-100 independently from
>>> Variable 1
>>>
>>> Thank you!
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