Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: Make categories from a list within a variable
From
Lynne Morgan <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: Make categories from a list within a variable
Date
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:52:37 -0500
Hello,
I have a variable that asks about country of origin. Unfortunately, my
data entry people were not consistent, so I ended up with things like this:
1 german
2 french, german, spanish
3 FRENCH GERMAN
4 finnish,irish,english,french,german, bohemian
5 polish and german
6 swedish & east european
How can I search this variable and create an indicator variable for each
ethnicity based on the string? Can I search within the string to find a
keyword?
*What is the proper lingo for the bolded text?
gen german = 0
replace german = 1 if coorigin contains "german"
Thanks!!
--
Lynne Morgan, MPH
Assistant Researcher
Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
(e) [email protected]
(p) 608-821-1243
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/