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Creating A Set of Dummy Variables To Represent A Categorical Variable

This document describes two methods for creating dummy variables to represent a categorical variable: 1) The labor intensive method of manually generating and replacing dummy variables for each category. 2) A much easier tabulate command that generates dummy variables for each category in one step.

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Creating A Set of Dummy Variables To Represent A Categorical Variable

This document describes two methods for creating dummy variables to represent a categorical variable: 1) The labor intensive method of manually generating and replacing dummy variables for each category. 2) A much easier tabulate command that generates dummy variables for each category in one step.

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Creating a set of dummy variables to represent a categorical variable

The labor intensive way:

I. GENERATE REP1=1 IF REPAIR==1

II. REPLACE REP1=0 IF REPAIR!=1 & REPAIR!=.

III. GENERATE REP2=1 IF REPAIR==2

IV. REPLACE REP1=0 IF REPAIR!=2 & REPAIR!=.

V. GENERATE REP3=1 IF REPAIR==3

VI. REPLACE REP3=0 IF REPAIR!=3 & REPAIR!=.

VII. GENERATE REP4=1 IF REPAIR==4

VIII. REPLACE REP1=0 IF REPAIR!=4 & REPAIR!=.

IX. GENERATE REP5=1 IF REPAIR==1

X. REPLACE REP5=0 IF REPAIR!=5 & REPAIR!=.

A much easier way to accomplish the same thing:

XI. TABULATE REPAIR, GEN(ALTREP)

Creating a set of dummy variables to represent a categorical variable

The labor intensive way:

generate rep1=1 if repair==1


replace rep1=0 if repair!=1 & repair!=.

generate rep2=1 if repair==2


replace rep1=0 if repair!=2 & repair!=.

generate rep3=1 if repair==3


replace rep3=0 if repair!=3 & repair!=.

generate rep4=1 if repair==4


2

replace rep1=0 if repair!=4 & repair!=.

generate rep5=1 if repair==1


replace rep5=0 if repair!=5 & repair!=.

A much easier way to accomplish the same thing:

tabulate repair, gen(altrep)

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