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st: Re: Help for converting string
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: Re: Help for converting string
Date
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:24:51 +0100
-encode- gives you the numeric values with value labels attached. If
you want to see the correspondence,
. label list countryid
Nick
[email protected]
On 22 August 2013 18:16, <[email protected]> wrote:
> - I have Stata IC 10
> - I converted string variable in numeric variable by using -encode-
> I did this:
>
> encode country, generate(countryid)
> I got:
>
> countryid
> Ghana
> Togo
> Nigeria
> Benin
> Norway
> France
> etc..
>
> What I want to have is the numerical value that correspond to the countryid
> i.e.
> countryid
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> etc
>
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