st: Re: New values for a value labelled variable

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Roger Newson wrote the package -sencode- to do this.  Type -ssc describe 
sencode- to see if this is what you want and install it.  You may need to 
decode the currently encoded variable first if you don't have a string 
version in the dataset.

M Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serguei Kaniovski" <kaniovsk@wifo.ac.at>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:08 AM
Subject: st: New values for a value labelled variable



> Hi all,
>
> I have a variable with (many) value labels, say
>
> 12-joe
> 23-mike
> 12-joe
> 45-helen
> 24-tom
> ...
>
> I would like to create a new variable with consecutive values assigned to 
> the old labels, e.g.
>
> 1-joe
> 2-mike
> 1-joe
> 3-helen
> 4-tom
> ...
>
> It is important that the sequence of names is preserved.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Serguei Kaniovski
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