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Re: st: global macro syntax for recoding missing values
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: global macro syntax for recoding missing values
Date
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:33:12 +0100
See http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-08/msg01258.html for
what a macro is and is not in Stata.
This question seems the wrong way round to me. Numeric missing is . in
Stata. Use -mvdecode- to convert from other codes used externally.
-mvdecode- accepts multiple codes, or you can apply it repeatedly, so
there should be no need for you to write anything yourself.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Rebecca Coates <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am archiving a dataset that has used multiple different values for missing data and I need to standardise all 3 waves to one missing value. I have a very basic understanding of macros, but can't figure out how to write a macro that will basically recode "." | "99" | "-999" == "999".
> Does anyone have any suggestions or know where I can look?
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