RE: st: generate 3.000 dummies

["Joseph McDonnell" <josephmcdonnellnl@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Cristian Mackenna" <chicomackenna@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: generate 3.000 dummies
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:08:16 +0000
>
> If I have a database like this:
>
> id_place	id_person
> 1	1
> 1	2
> 1	3
> 2	4
> 2	5
> 2	6
> 3	7
> 3	8
> 3	9
> �	�
> 3000	200000
>
> Is there any fast way to generate a dummy for every of the 3.000 id_place
forvalues j=1(1)3000 {
     gen dummy`j'=(id_place==`j')
}

but I doubt you really want to go down that path. That number of dummies is 
excessive to say the least.

Joseph

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