A question in "encode"

[Curtis Chou]

Hello, I have a question about "encode". Why the "encode" don't present "English dummy" by defined.
I use STATA 14

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webuse hbp2, clear
tostring city, gen(ncity)
label define stata 1 "USA" 2 "JAPEN" 3 "UT" 5 "pp"
encode ncity, gen(stata)

[Curtis Chou]

In addition, the number of dummy is wrong.

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webuse hbp2, clear
tostring city, gen(ncity)
label define stata 1 "USA" 2 "JAPEN" 3 "UT" 5 "pp"
encode ncity, gen(stata)
recode stata (1=1), gen(new1)

[Nick Cox]

encode ncity, gen(stata) label(stata)

may be what you seek.

[Curtis Chou]

It still can't work

webuse hbp2, clear
tostring city, gen(ncity)
label define stata 1 "USA" 2 "JAPEN" 3 "UT" 5 "pp"
encode ncity, gen(stata) label(stata)
recode stata (1=1), gen(new1)

[Curtis Chou]

Hello, I find a simple way can solve it
use "recode"
webuse hbp2, clear
recode city (1=1 "USA") (2=2 "JPEN") (3 = 3 "UT") (5 =5 "pp"), gen(new1)

[Nick Cox]

I am not clear what you seek then. Is it something to do with dummy (=indicator, binary, dichotomous, zero-one) variables?

[daniel klein]

recode does not seem necessary:

label define stata 1 "USA" 2 "JPEN" 3 "UT" 5 "pp"
label values city stata