On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael Blasnik wrote:
:Actually, that code would give you the count for each name, not assign
:unique identifiers. There are many ways to get what you want, but egen
:id=group(name) is probably the easiest.
With the caveat that names themselves must be unqiue.
Caleb
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University of Oregon Sociology
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