Re: st: Assigned sex

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

and yet only one person complained!!!!

m.p.

On 12/23/2010 1:04 PM, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
> This is such a disappointing email after a tempting title...
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> Tony
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> Peter A. Lachenbruch
> Department of Public Health
> Oregon State University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Clayton
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:08 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Assigned sex
>
> Use -encode- to convert the sex variable to a numeric one, eg:
>
> label define male 0 "F" 1 "M"
> encode sex, label(male) gen(male)
>
> Note that I've made the values 0 and 1, rather than 1 and 2, because this makes "male" a dummy variable suitable for regression.
>
> Phil
>
> On 22/12/2010, at 11:50 PM, Marcello Pagano wrote:
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> > -------- Original Message --------
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> > Dear stata-listers,
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> > I would like some help is using the 'recode' command (or any other appropriate one)
> > to reformat one of my variables.
> >
> > The variable 'sex' describes what sex each of my subjects is assigned to.
> > The variable looks like this:
> >
> > . sum sex
> >
> >     Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
> > -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
> >          sex |         0
> >
> > . tab sex
> >
> >       c:sex |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> >           F |        584       48.50       48.50
> >           M |        620       51.50      100.00
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> >       Total |      1,204      100.00
> >
> > As you can see the above variable isn't particularly useful for regression,
> > and basic statistics that I would like to use it for. How would I somehow recode
> > the variable, such that all boys are coded as 1 and girls as 2?? And the number
> > of observations will be listed as 1,204 when the variable is summarized?
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> > As of now the varibale is the 'str1' format.
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> > Thanks!
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> > /Amal.
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> > Amal Khanolkar, PhD candidate,
> > Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS),
> > Karolinska Institutet,
> > 106 91 Stockholm.
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