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Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable
From
Patricia Biedermann <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
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Re: st: generating number list depending on another variable
Date
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:49:25 +0100
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your reply. Variable 1 is already encoded....it's a long
variable now.
Pati
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard Goldstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> it looks like variable 1 is a string variable so you want the -encode-
> command; when you read the help file, pay attention to the "label" option
>
> Rich
>
> On 3/19/14, 10:34 AM, Patricia Biedermann wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Following problem:
>> I have variable1 with different values (AL, BS, SF, ZK...etc.) and
>> want to create another variable with a list of numbers reaching from
>> e.g. 1-100;
>> For each value in variable1 there should be the same number in
>> variable2; it should look like that in the end:
>>
>> Variable 1 Variable 2
>> AL 1
>> AL 1
>> AL 1
>> BS 2
>> BS 2
>> BS 2
>> BS 2
>> BS 2
>> SF 3
>> SF 3
>> ZG 4
>> etc etc.
>>
>> I tried to use egen variable2=fill(1(1)100) also in combination with
>> foreach; somehow generates values from 1-100 independently from
>> Variable 1
>>
>> Thank you!
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