Hi Jon,
Thank you very much for your input. However, the syntax generates new
variable values greater than 28. The 28 unique values occur many
times. What I would like to accomplish, for example, is that each time
the value 2.87 occurs the new variable value would be 1, and so on for
the other unique values. I apologize if I was not clear in my previous
post. Thank you.
Best,
Frank
On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:25 PM, John Ataguba wrote:
Hi Frank,
There are many possible options.
Try
egen newvar=rank(oldvar), unique
This should work. Note that the oldvar is the variable containing
2.87 to 6.04. The newvar is a new variable you may specify
differently to the oldvar.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Jon
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From: Frank Gallo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, 21 August, 2009 18:15:45
Subject: st: Recode non-integers to positive integers
Hi All,
I have a variable that has 28 unique non-integer values, which range
from 2.87 to 6.04. I would like to recode the values to positive
integers from 1 to 28 respectively. Is there a simpler way instead of
"recode old var (2.87=1)....(6.04=28), generate(new var)" to
accomplish this? Thank you.
Best,
Frank
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