Tashi, when you encode any variable it looses its string property so
there would be numeric value corresponding to id_131 in firms1 and you
should use that value in your command line
Best
Prakash
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello All,
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> I found matters similar to what I am going to post have been been discussed in the past but I am not sure if I understood. Here is my dataset
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> 3 id_6429
> 10 id_131
> 8 id_2837
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> 12 id_90
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> The problem is to have sth like this
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> so I said 1. encode firm, gen(firm1)
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> drop firms
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> I also tried 2. replace firms="" if firms!="id_131"
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> It didn't give me the expected output although I feel like my codes are correct at least in principle. Any idea?
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> Thanking,
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> Tashi
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