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Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
From
Dawood Ashraf <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
Date
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 05:52:57 -0800 (PST)
Anees,
It did not work out. see below
destring fund_name, gen(new)
fund_name contains nonnumeric characters; no generate
the new should be numeric not string.
Dawood
----- Original Message -----
From: Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 4:45:53 PM
Subject: Re: st: Generating Identifier based on string variable
destring name, gen(new) should do as the names appear to be string variables
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dawood Ashraf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to generate a new identifier variable based on names of individuals. The shape of the data is as follows:
>
> Name Date
> Mark 1990
>
> Mark 1991
> Mark 1992
>
> Marry 1990
>
> Marry 1991
>
> Marry 1992
>
> Marry 1993
>
> Chris 1993
>
> Bob 1992
>
>
> Now I want to generate a new variable, Identifier which assign unique number to Mark, Marry, Chris and Bob as 1,2,3,4.
>
> I have looked in the help but could not find anything suitable. I have seen once a question similar to this on STATA and applied myself but somehow skipped from my mind. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Dawood
>
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Muhammad Anees
Assistant Professor
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Attock 43600, Pakistan
www.aneconomist.com
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