I do not know if this is helpful to you at all. However, since
e.g. -postfile- does not allow strings, I am using an id-variable for
countries, and thereafter merge the original countylist (after postclose). I
am sure there is a better way, but it works...
/Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: st: Data manipulation
> I am trying to manipulate my data in the following way: after stacking my
data
> (and losing the data in memory), I am trying to recover the country name.
So
> anytime the stack variable is 1 in the dataset, I want to input a string
into
> another variable called "country", when the stack variable is 2 in the
dataset,
> I want to input a different string in the "country" variable.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
