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Re: st: Re: format
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Re: format
Date
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:21:37 +0200
You can just leave the string in your dataset and create a new numeric
id like this
bys stringid : gen numid = _n == 1
replace numid = sum(numid)
-- Maarten
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
> encode works. The only constraint is that it does not encode string
> variables that takes more than 65,536 unique values.
> Thanks
>
> On 29/07/2012, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Chiara Mussida wrote:
>>
>> i have a string variable of 18 lenght. This is my id and i need it
>> numerical. I proceeded with destring and i got a numerical variable in
>> double format. I tried to get it in the format %18.0f, but i realised
>> that stata does not maintain the original number. It approx each
>> variable and in this way i cannot get a unique id Per individual. Do
>> you know whether it is a problem of wrong format?
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> It is not a problem of the wrong format. At the command line type:
>>
>> help data_types
>>
>> and examine the precision of Stata's numerical data types.
>>
>> I'm curious as to why you believe that you must store eighteen-character IDs
>> as
>> numbers. If you need to obtain a numerical ID for use of one of Stata's
>> -xt-
>> commands, then you can use -encode-.
>>
>> Joseph Coveney
>>
>>
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>
>
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> Chiara Mussida
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> Doctoral school of Economic Policy
> Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)
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