The force option would make them missing, right?
I actually need the data. This particular variable contains the
verbatim response, which I need Stata to recode into numericals so
that I can categorize them.
Please advise. Thank you.
jumin
On 8/1/05, Dev Vencappa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
> Try using the force option.
>
> Dev
>
>>>> [email protected] 08/01/05 5:56 pm >>>
> I'm trying to destring a string variable by using the following command:
> destring r05_, gen (immig_spec)
>
> But, I get the following message:
> r05_ contains non-numeric characters; no generate
>
> How do I get around this. Thank you.
> jumin
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