Hi! I am trying to take data from a category and group the categories into groups of smaller categories. Can anyone offer guidance on the best command path?
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It's unclear exactly what you want to do. You might start by looking at the group() -egen- function. See:
then scroll down to group.Code:help egen
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I agree that it is unclear where you are starting and what you want (please read the FAQ), but have a different suggestion (assuming the starting variable is numeric):
Code:h recode
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I agree with Rich Goldstein here.
The egen function group() has just one use, to map already distinct values (which could be distinct numeric or string values) to integers 1 up.
It doesn't help in mapping several categories to fewer at all.Comment
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