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RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
Date
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:45:37 +0000
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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).
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Nick Cox [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 4:35 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: st: Basic Numeric to String Recoding
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".
Nick
[email protected]
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
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
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?
>
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