Excellent point. I would think of a set of dummies
as one logical variable, but clearly it could boost
the number of Stata variables substantially.
Nick
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Renzo Comolli
> I of course totally agree with Nick on the general principle.
>
> But if you have something as simple as
> xi: impute weekly_hours_of_work i.census_occupation_code,
> gen(imputed_whw)
> and if your data allow, then you want to use (at least) two
> digits census
> occupation code, and that's 84 dummies. In this case, -impute- would
> probably be extrely fast (if it weren't limited) because
> these are 84
> dummies.
> This is just a "FYI" thread. As far as I am concerned, I am all set.
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