Thanks, Martin.
I was just going to reply to myself saying that I had found it here:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Stata/faq/destring.htm
I have used -encode- so many times. Must be getting old.
Eric
Eric de Souza
College of Europe
BE-8000 Brugge (Bruges)
Belgium
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I can't for the life of me remember how to convert a variable containg country names into a variable containing numbers, one for each country.
Eric
Eric de Souza
College of Europe
BE-8000 Brugge (Bruges)
Belgium
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