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Re: st: encode command
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: encode command
Date
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:58:59 +0100
list country_1, nolabel
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the dataset I am using the names assigned to different countries are strings. My variable name is "country"
> I use the command "encode country, gen(country_1)" in order to transform the string into numbers
> But still country_1 shows as a name and not a number. What if I would to visualize countr_1 as a column of numbers in the dataset?
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