SENCODE: Stata module to encode a string variable non-alphanumerically into a numeric variable

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Abstract: sencode is a sequential version of encode. It takes, as input, a string variable, and generates, as output, a numeric variable, with value labels corresponding to values of the string variable. Unlike encode, sencode orders the numeric values corresponding to string values in the sequential order of appearance in the input string variable in the data set, or in another order specified by the user, instead of ordering them in alphanumeric order of the string value, as encode does. The mapping from numeric code values to string labels may be one-to-one (coded in order of first appearance of the string value) or many-to-one (coded in each observation by the position of that observation in the data set, or in the user-specified ordering).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9.0
Keywords: data; manipulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2001-04-06
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install sencode". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/sencode.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/sencode.hlp help file (text/plain)

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