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st: RE: Tab gen names
From
"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: Tab gen names
Date
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:24:28 -0700 (PDT)
I would just program this using extended macro functions. For example:
levelsof myvariable
foreach value in `r(levels)' {
gen `: label (myvariable) `value'' = myvariable == 1
}
If you prefer lower case variables as many users do, change the second
line to
gen `=lower("`: label (myvariable) `value''")' = myvariable == 1
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Betz
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 9:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Tab gen names
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to name the variables created by tabulate generate()
> according to the tabulated variable's value labels. I want to create
> dummies for each category in the variable "tenure", which takes the
values
>
> 1==Freehold
> 2==Leasehold
> 3==Mailo
> 4==Customary
>
> These show up as the newly created variables' labels, but I'd like them
to
> be the variable names. Any thoughts?
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