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Re: st: encode command


From   Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: encode command
Date   Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:30:44 +0200

the variable you generated, country_1, has those numbers already no?

input str10 country
Greece
Germany
Spain
Italy
end

list
encode country, gen(country_1)
list
list, nolabel



-- 
010100100110111101101110011011100110100101100101




On Friday, October 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Dear Statalisters, 
> 
> Using list country_1, nolabel, I manage to visualize the numbers in the main windows of results, but what if I want to generate a new variable that includes these numbers? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Caterina
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:58:59 +0100
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> Subject: Re: st: encode command
> 
> list country_1, nolabel
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM, <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> 
> > In the dataset I am using the names assigned to different countries are strings. My variable name is "country"
> > I use the command "encode country, gen(country_1)" in order to transform the string into numbers
> > But still country_1 shows as a name and not a number. What if I would to visualize countr_1 as a column of numbers in the dataset?
> 
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