Thanks again to Kit Baum, a new package -multencode- is now available
from SSC. This was discussed last week in my post
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist
.0901/date/article-641.html>
and, as there detailed, is a delayed response to a thread started on the
list by Moleps Islon in November.
It's notable that -encode- goes way, way back in Stata history. Even now
-multencode- is just a wrapper for -encode-, with some Mata
manipulations to work out the value labels.
A capsule description follows my signature. Use -ssc inst multencode- to
install if interested.
Nick
[email protected]
multencode Stata module to encode multiple string variables into numeric
multencode creates new numeric variables newvarlist, with value labels
defined and attached, based on the string variables strvarlist. The same
set of value labels is used for all the new variables.
Author
Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University, UK
[email protected]
Stata 9 required
Keywords: encode, string, numeric, value labels
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