egen newvar = group(oldvar), label

[Franz Gerbig]

Hi.

I want to assign values to string data. Therefore I tried to convert the string var into a numeric one containing data like

fre new_numeric_var

1 "theatre one"
2 "central theatre"
3 "museum downtown"
4 "whatever"
...
So, each text entered by the intereviewer for a respondent should be assigned a number - identical chars the same number (observations with 100% identical string answers the same number).
I tried this submitting

egen t1m19v09_1_e0 = group(t1m19v09_1), label

Stata prompts "too few quotes",
So, according to Nick's recommendations in the thread
https://www.stata.com/statalist/arch.../msg00712.html
I checked varlabel ("Musik: Sonstiges (offen)") and

update query

- but "all files are up to date".

What options are left to be checked?

[Nick Cox]

We need a data example

dataex t1m19v09_1

[Marcos Almeida]

Just for the sake of hazarding a guess, I wonder whether you wish something like:

. input str50 mystring

                                               mystring
  1. "theatre one"
  2. "central theatre"
  3. "museum downtown"
  4. "whatever"
  5. end
-----------------------+
. encode mystring, gen(mycat1)

. tab mycat1

         mycat1 |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
----------------+-----------------------------------
central theatre |          1       25.00       25.00
museum downtown |          1       25.00       50.00
    theatre one |          1       25.00       75.00
       whatever |          1       25.00      100.00
----------------+-----------------------------------
          Total |          4      100.00


. numlabel, add

. tab mycat1

            mycat1 |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
-------------------+-----------------------------------
1. central theatre |          1       25.00       25.00
2. museum downtown |          1       25.00       50.00
    3. theatre one |          1       25.00       75.00
       4. whatever |          1       25.00      100.00
-------------------+-----------------------------------
             Total |          4      100.00

. list

     +--------------------------------------+
     |        mystring               mycat1 |
     |--------------------------------------|
  1. |     theatre one       3. theatre one |
  2. | central theatre   1. central theatre |
  3. | museum downtown   2. museum downtown |
  4. |        whatever          4. whatever |
     +---------------