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Re: st: Re: Help for converting string
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: Help for converting string
Date
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:58:04 +0100
What good would that be?
Consider this. I have a three-category categorical variable. Its
states are 1,2,3. What does that mean?
But you can detach the labels.
Nick
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On 22 August 2013 18:50, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> a écrit :
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>
>> -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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