Re: st: Re: Help for converting string

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Thank Nick .what I want is just the numeric value when I convert the  
string variable not the label
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Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> a écrit :

> -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
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