st: Re: Identify Categorical/Dichotomous and Continuous Variables

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

Well, there seems to be no clear-cut distinction between cat. and cont. 
variables in Stata. If you

sysuse auto, clear
describe


you see the storage type in the second column of the output.

HTH
Martin
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> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Stata: moved from SPSS a week ago. I am hoping that someone 
> can help me with what I imagine is a simple issue. I saved an SPSS file as 
> a Stata one. I am
> working my way through the user guide and the data management manual, but 
> I am having difficulty with confirming whether Stata recognizes variables 
> as continuous
> (or scale) or categorical/dichotomous (or nominal). In SPSS, you can 
> easily identify whether the type of measure is a scale, nominal, or string 
> with its drop down menu in
> the variable view. It would be a great help, and I would appreciate it 
> very much if someone would tell me the method to confirm the data type for
> categorical/dichotomous and for continuous variables? Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
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