st: Using tab command on strings, exceeding 65,536 limit

[Jeff Simonson <simonsonjt@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

I am using Stata 9 and want to get a simple tabulation by city. My file
consists of over 207,000 rows. When I type in "tab city" I get returned an
error R134 that warns me that I cannot encode more than 65,536 unique
values. When I do a select distinct sql statement in my Access table on
the same field there are only 3046 unique values. 

Any suggested work-arounds would be helpful.

Thanks,
Jeff


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