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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Re: Help for converting string |
| Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:24:51 +0100 |
-encode- gives you the numeric values with value labels attached. If you want to see the correspondence, . label list countryid Nick njcoxstata@gmail.com On 22 August 2013 18:16, <ayayi@uqtr.ca> wrote: > - I have Stata IC 10 > - I converted string variable in numeric variable by using -encode- > I did this: > > encode country, generate(countryid) > I got: > > countryid > Ghana > Togo > Nigeria > Benin > Norway > France > etc.. > > What I want to have is the numerical value that correspond to the countryid > i.e. > countryid > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > etc > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/