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st: Generating new variable with new values from the old one


From   "Shittu, Aminu" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Generating new variable with new values from the old one
Date   Wed, 5 Sep 2012 08:11:04 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Statalisters,

I am interested in generating a new "agecat" variable and then rename every value in the original "age_category" named "NA," "NONE" and "UNKNOWN" to mean the same, I will call all of the as "NONE." However, I am interested in keeping those values such as "ADULT," and "YOUNG" to mean the same as in the original "age_category" variable. I used the following initially but the response is always "adult not found," is there a way I can do it in Stata? Here are my command lines:

gen agacat=.
replace agecat=adult if age_category==adult

Please note all the entries in var "age_category" are in CAPS.

Thanks

Aminu

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