Hello!
I'm trying to recode a variable named V241 in the World Values Survey data set (which can be found here: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVS...ntationWV6.jsp), that takes the form of the year of birth, and I want to turn it into a numeric value of age. I'm relatively new to Stata so I searched around for a way to do it but haven't found any solution that would apply to my particular situation. I did learn that I should first use the following command to figure out what type of data format it is:
However, I'm not sure what the result means, it says the storage type is "long" and the display format is "%5.0f"
I know I could try to use the "recode" command but that would require that i recode every year (from 1912-1999) within the command and I'm hoping there might be an easier way to go about this?
Thank you!
I'm trying to recode a variable named V241 in the World Values Survey data set (which can be found here: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVS...ntationWV6.jsp), that takes the form of the year of birth, and I want to turn it into a numeric value of age. I'm relatively new to Stata so I searched around for a way to do it but haven't found any solution that would apply to my particular situation. I did learn that I should first use the following command to figure out what type of data format it is:
Code:
des V241
I know I could try to use the "recode" command but that would require that i recode every year (from 1912-1999) within the command and I'm hoping there might be an easier way to go about this?
Thank you!
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