STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
variable in the Generate Variable box:
agecat
5. Click on the Generate variable as type drop down
box and change to byte.
6. For the Contents box, click on the Create button.
7. In the Expression builder box, under the
Category section, select Programming
8. A list of available functions is displayed. Scroll
down to the recode() function and highlight that
function. You will see a description of the function
at the bottom of the dialog box.
9. Double click on this function. The function will be
pasted in the window at the top of the dialog box so
that you see:
recode(x,x1,x2,...,xn)
The first “x” is highlighted. Replace the first “x”
with the variable name, ca3, so that the expression
now looks like:
recode(ca3,x1,x2,...,xn)
Replace the “x1" with the value of the highest age
that you want to recoded for the first group, e.g.
recode(ca3,10,x2,...,xn)
Continue replacing the values with the next group
to be coded until all groups are defined, e.g..
recode(ca3,10,19,60,100)
Stata will use the value as the code assigned to
all cases that fall within that group. The value
of 10 will be assigned to all observations with
ages between 0 and 10, the value of 19 will be
assigned to all observations that fall between ca3
>10 and