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Re: st: loop within a loop
From
Ryan Stevens <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: loop within a loop
Date
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:25:57 -0400
Adam,
A loop is not necessary for this. You could either i. generate new
dummies using 'tab group, gen(ethnicity)' and then rename the
variables or ii. generate dummies by combining generate and
conditionals. I'm going with ii. here:
gen white = (eth == 1)
gen black = (eth == 2)
gen hispanic = (eth==3)
gen asian = (eth == 4)
gen mixed = (eth==5)
Best,
Ryan
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Adam Guerrero <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to create a loop within a loop for the following block of
> code (loop through variables white, black, hispanic, asian, and mixed
> from values 1 to 5):
>
> generate white=0
> replace white=1 if eth==1
> generate black=0
> replace black=1 if eth==2
> generate hispanic=0
> replace hispanic=1 if eth==3
> generate asian=0
> replace asian=1 if eth==4
> generate mixed=0
> replace mixed=1 if eth==5
>
> I know decode would be easier, but please consider responding to help
> me out learning how to loop.
>
> I'm relatively new to Stata, so any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Adam Guerrero
>
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