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Re: st: Re: Help for converting string
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Re: Help for converting string
Date
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:57:51 -0400
then use the -label drop- command
Rich
On 8/22/13 1:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Thank Nick .what I want is just the numeric value when I convert the
> string variable not the label
>
Nick Cox <[email protected]> a écrit :
> -encode- gives you the numeric values with value labels attached. If
> you want to see the correspondence,
>
> . label list countryid
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 22 August 2013 18:16, <[email protected]> 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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