Hello,
I have a variable that has string values. I was trying to count cases with
the following command:
count if variablename == "string value"
which, however, returned me 0 cases.
Then I converted the variable to a numeric one and then the count worked.
After this two questions arise:
1. Why the command -count if variablename == "string value"- did not work?
What instead should I have used?
2. After I converted the variable, I command "describe", "tab", "sum"...
I only see in the "sum variablename" command the min and max values stata
has assigned but
I don't see a complete list of assigned numeric values to string values. Why
and how can I see it?
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