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Re: st: Combining string and numeric variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Combining string and numeric variables
Date
Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:23:13 +0000
Explained in many places. Here's one:
SJ-7-4 dm0034 . . . Stata tip 52: Generating composite categorical variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q4/07 SJ 7(4):582--583 (no commands)
tip on how to generate categorical variables using
tostring and egen, group()
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0034
Nick
[email protected]
On 4 December 2013 09:48, Miguel A. Duran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, statalisters. I have a panel data set in long form. This panel data set
> has two variables to identify observations, one for country (eg, UK) and one
> for region (eg, 11 or M0). I have to transform the dataset into wide form.
> Nevertheless, to do this, if I am not mistaken, previously I have to combine
> these two identifying variables (to generate, eg, values such as UKM0). Does
> anyone know whether this can be done with Stata? Thanks in advance.
>
> Miguel A.
>
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