2016-10-17

Quantitative academia UoN

Stata /SE14.2

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label variable id "id of respondent" // label a variable

codebook gender // displays the codebook

label define genderlab 1 "Female" 2 "Male" // names values to genderlab values

label values gender genderlab // links gender to genderlab

set more off

describe //describes the dataset

codebook //displays the entire codebook

mvdecode _all, mv(-9=.) //decoding missing values

recode gender (1=1) (2=0), into(female)

drop female

recode gender (1=1) (2=0), gen(female)

label variable female "female dummy variable"

label define femalelab 0 "Male" 1 "Female"

label value female femalelab

drop female

recode gender (1=1 "Female") (2=0 "Male"), into(female)// Single step

tab female gender // tabulates