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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding |
| Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:52:38 +0100 |
Good point! Just having my little bit of fun.... Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Eric Booth I used that order because that's how -encode- encodes "state2" when using "census.dta"; however, if you sort on "state2" before encoding, you will get proper alphabetic order (and you'll need to change the -label define- statement in my code accordingly). Nick Cox Eric's spirit is exactly right, but those over 40 were taught the alphabet.... "Alabama" comes before "Alaska", modulo Sarah Palin. "Arizona" also comes before "Arkansas". Eric Booth Something like this: ****************! **set up** sysuse census, clear keep state2 pop encode state2 , g(state3) lab li ********** lab def fullstates 1 "Alaska" 2 "Alabama" 3 "Arkansas" /// 4 "Arizona" 5 "California" 6 "Colorado", modify **and so on... lab val state3 fullstates lab li li state3 state2 //<-- make sure these line up ****************! ~ Eric __ Eric A. Booth Public Policy Research Institute Texas A&M University ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu Office: +979.845.6754 On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Benhoen2 wrote: > I am a new user - please forgive me. > > I have a list of numeric IDs for states (stateid) with abbreviated labels > attached (stname). I would like to create a new string variable made us of > the unabbreviated state names but based on the stateid variable. > > I have tried the following: > 1) recode stateid (1="Alabama"), (2="Arkansas"), ..., generate(statename) > 2) recode stateid (1="Alabama"), (2="Arkansas"), ..., strgen(statename) > 3) generate state="Alabama" if stateid=1 > > among other nonsensical permutations. Is there any way to do this using > recode, or something analogous? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/