Dummy variables

[Peter Akinlotan]

Please I'm very new to using stata, and I want to create dummy variable for values of 0-1 in equal half.
i.e I have a value that measures probability from 0-1, which I want to code as low and high (0=low, 1=high)

[Rich Goldstein]

do you mean you want 50% 0's and 50% 1's or do you mean you want to split the data at a probability of .5?

[Peter Akinlotan]

Thank you Rich, yea I want to split the data so 0-0.5 could read 0 and values greater than 0.5 will be 1

[Andrew Musau]

If I understand correctly, you want:

g high= var>=0.5
lab def high 1 "high" 0 "low"
lab values high high

where you replace "var" with the name of your variable.

[Rich Goldstein]

if I read #3 correctly, change Andrew Musau 's command by deleting the equals sign in the generate command (first line) - it is a typo

[Peter Akinlotan]

Thank you Andrew and Rich