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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: encode |
| Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:41:00 +0200 |
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Artur Kyral (CMA) wrote: > I was wondering if there is either a base or a user-defined command or an > option similar to command encode that creates numeric variables with data > values initiating at 0 instead of 1? I see no need for a new command. You can just subtract 1 from the new variable. encode var, gen(newvar) replace newvar = var - 1 This will cause you trouble with the value labels. Probably the quickest way of fixing these is -labmask- available from SSC. Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * 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/