The code is short, but if time is too this looks like
the wrong way to go. The issue is that -recode- is
a few hundred lines of Stata to interpret, and so,
ceteris paribus, not the sort of thing you want to
loop over.
I am not a betting person, but I'd guess wildly that Austin's
approach is faster.
Nick
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Richard Williams
> At 12:14 PM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
> >I am doing the following and fervently believe that there are more
> >elegant, faster ways to do this. (I am working in Stata 8.2
> but will be
> >updating to 9 any day now.) Occupational history codes
> jobnum1-jobnum16
> >each take one of 500 values from 003 to 909, and I am assigning a
> >Nam-Powers status value (1 to 100) to each occupation held.
> >
> >forvalues i=1 to 16{
> >gen jobstatus`i'=.
> >}
>
> how about (not tested)
>
> forvalues i = 1 to 16 {
> recode jobnum`i' (003=86)(004=77)..., gen(jobstatus`'i')
> }
>
> or else something like
>
> recode jobnum1 jobnum2...jobnum16 (003=86)..., gen(jobstatus1
> jobstatus2...)
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