st: create dummy variable for each five values

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

The solutions posted seem excessively cumbersome.

. set obs 30
obs was 0, now 30

. g year=_n+1969

. g quin=int((_n-1)/5)

. tab quin,gen(dquin)


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Nov 11, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Lynda wrote:

> > >  I have a variable Year:
> > > ...
> > > 1991
> > > 1992
> > > 1993
> > > 1994
> > > 1995
> > > 1996
> > > 1997
> > > 1998
> > > 1999
> > > 2000
> > > ...
> > >
> > > How do I create one dummy variable for each 5-year interval with one
> > > command.
> > >
> > > Typically I can get it manually by generating one dummy at a time
> > > gen year1=1 if year>=1991 & year<=1995
> > > ...
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