Sounds like a problem for -destring- -tostring- -encode- -decode- to me...
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Serguei Kaniovski
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: st: RE: Tabulation task
The problem is that the VALUES of the variable Vote_id in second file
are contained in the NAMES of the Vx varibales in the first file. And I
cannot figure out how to work with this.
Serguei
Martin Weiss schrieb:
> Not sure whether I get this problem right: if there is a unique key that
> ties the person`s vote in the first file to the Vote _id in the second
file,
> then -merge- on the unique key and - tabulate- (-tab2-) afterwards.
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Serguei
Kaniovski
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:39 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Tabulation task
>
> Hallo,
>
> I am stuck with the following tabulation tast. I have two datafiles. One
> contains the following variables:
>
> Name, Country, V1, V2, V3, V4, ... large number
> where Vx signifies a persons vote on issue x (numeric, categorical)
>
> A second file contains the issue types (string) of each vote as follows:
>
> Vote_id, Vote_issue
> where Vote _id is numeric and corresponds to 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., Vote_issue
> is a string decribing the voting issue.
>
> How can I read in the issue types and tabulate the V-variables by issue
> and country?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Serguei
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