Isabelle,
in addition to Martin's comments, be aware that Stata will not
recognise .. (dot dot) as being numeric. Missing values are coded .
(dot) in Stata. If you really have .. in your healthinit variable, you
will have to replace those with . or an empty cell before applying
-destring healthinit, replace-.
Eva
2009/3/3 <[email protected]>:
> Dear Martin,
> Thank you very much for all your help since the beginning I use Stata.
> Here are my data (just the beginning!):
>
> country healthinit H health
> Afghanistan 13.00 13.00 23.32
> Albania 116.00 116.00 16.96
> Algeria 76.00 76.00 169.6
> American Samoa .. .. 1.06
> Andorra 1922.17 1922.17 54.06
> Angola 24.00 24.00 72.08
> Antigua and Barbuda 492.00 492.00 138.86
> Argentina 283.00 283.00 89.04
> Armenia 53.00 53.00 145.22
> Aruba .. .. 1.06
>
> Healthinit is the health expenditure per capita in current dollars. It is
> a string variable. It comes from the wdi database. As I want them in
> euros, and that the exchange rate is 1.06 (year is 2003), I wrote to
> stata:
>
> encode healthinit, gen(H)
> generate health=1.06*H
>
> H is a long variable.
>
> Danke schön für die Helfe!
>
> Isabelle
>
>
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