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Re: st: Creating dummy variables
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Jim Bang <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating dummy variables
Date
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:15:16 -0500
Have you tried the "xi" commands?
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Anup Nandialath
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a question with respect to creating dummy variables.
>
> First, I tabulate data based on a specific condition
>
> tab group if A==1
>
> and the Stata and example output (partial) looks as follows
>
>
> Group | Freq. Percent Cum.
> -----------------------------------+----------
> Group 1 | 34 4.34 4.34
> Group 2 | 10 1.28 5.62
> Group 3 | 22 2.81 8.43
> Group 4 | 35 4.47 13.15
> Group 5 | 14 1.79 14.94
> -----------------------------------------+---
>
> In my dataset I have more than 30 groups (of which only some meet the
> required condition). Therefore my task is to create a dummy variable
> which will take the value of 1 if it belongs to any of the groups
> which are listed as output from the conditional table and zero
> otherwise.
>
> Any help in this direction is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anup
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