Categorical recode inquiry

[william floyd]

Hello everyone,

I recoded "race" into "race_cat" which merged the original "race" data which had a lot of attachments. The question I have is how do I go from "race_cat" which has white, black, asian, and other into standalone variables. To clarify, I want to go from "race_cat" into "white" "black" "asian" and "other". Currently the range for "race_cat" is 4.

[Clyde Schechter]

Why do you want to do that? Unless you are running an archaic version of Stata, there is almost no situation that requires separate variables like that. Use factor-variable notation instead. (See -help fvvarlist- if you are not familiar with it.)

That said, if for some reason you really do need separate indicator variables for the four race categories:

forvalues i = 1/4 {
    gen byte `=strtoname("`:label (race_cat) `i''")' = `i'.race_cat
}

[Nick Cox]

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