Not clear exactly what you want, but see -help decode- and -help
encode- for turning labels into values or vice versa. If you mean to
make variables cropid101, cropid102, etc. then see -help reshape-.
You question would be more scrutable if you gave the before and after
versions of what you want to do.
On 3/4/06, Fanwell Kenala Bokosi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Statalisters,
>
> I have data that I want to transform and I do not know the fastest way to to
> it. I have a variable named cropid and saleval recoded per household
>
> The data set is like this
>
> hhid cropid saleval
> 1 101 2000
> 1 102 3000
> 1 103 1000
> 2 101 200
> 3 102 1300
> 3 103 1500
>
> I want to recode the data such that each cropid label values becomes a
> variable. How do i go about doing this.
>
> Please help
>
>
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