Dummy variable that equals 1 if the CEO is also the chairman

[Dillon Steijn]

Hi everyone,

For my research I need a variable that equals 1 if the CEO is also the chairman(/chairwoman), which I will call ''CHAIR''. I generated data for firm years between 2011-2019 ousing Boardex (committee details)
I already used the code gen CHAIR= 1 if strpos(BoardRole , "Chairman/CEO") , however, I think this is not the right way of creating the variable.
Could anyone help me with this?
The data looks like this:

[Joro Kolev]

I think in your data

gen chair = BoardRole=="Chairman/CEO"

would do it.

And do not post pictures, use -dataex- to show sample of your data.