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Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable


From   Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable
Date   Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:03:45 -0400

you should not be using -egen- at all as far as I can see

you have now contradicted yourself (is variable 1 numeric or string?) so
maybe someone else can help you

Rich

On 3/19/14, 10:58 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
> Hello,
> -decode seems not to work with string variables. So I used encode.
> - When I  generate variable2  with egen variable2=fill(1(1)100) I get
> this result:
> 
> Variable 1                                Variable 2
> AL                                             1
> AL                                             2
> AL                                             3
> BS                                             4
> BS                                             5
> BS                                             6
> BS                                             7
> BS                                             8
> SF                                             9
> SF                                             10
> ZG                                            11
> etc                                            etc.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Richard Goldstein
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> then -decode- it is one option
>>
>> however, if it is already numeric doesn't it already meet what you want?
>> if not, what is wrong with it?
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On 3/19/14, 10:49 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>> Thanks for your reply. Variable 1 is already encoded....it's a long
>>> variable now.
>>> Pati
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard Goldstein
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> it looks like variable 1 is a string variable so you want the -encode-
>>>> command; when you read the help file, pay attention to the "label" option
>>>>
>>>> Rich
>>>>
>>>> On 3/19/14, 10:34 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Following problem:
>>>>> I have variable1 with different values (AL, BS, SF, ZK...etc.) and
>>>>> want to create another variable with a list of numbers reaching from
>>>>> e.g. 1-100;
>>>>> For each value in variable1 there should be the same number in
>>>>> variable2; it should look like that in the end:
>>>>>
>>>>> Variable 1                                Variable 2
>>>>> AL                                             1
>>>>> AL                                             1
>>>>> AL                                             1
>>>>> BS                                             2
>>>>> BS                                             2
>>>>> BS                                             2
>>>>> BS                                             2
>>>>> BS                                             2
>>>>> SF                                             3
>>>>> SF                                             3
>>>>> ZG                                             4
>>>>> etc                                            etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to use egen variable2=fill(1(1)100) also in combination with
>>>>> foreach; somehow generates values from 1-100 independently from
>>>>> Variable 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
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