Missing Values and Recoding Categorical Variables in Stata

This short video lecture demonstrates how to use the replace and generate commands to insert missing values and to recode a categorical variable in Stata

[@GimaelManda]

Helpful. Thanks

[@MumblingProfessor]

This is an incredibly convoluted way of generating dummy variables. A way faster way to generate the education dummy variables is clean up the missing categories, and then use the command:
tab EDUCATION, gen(educd)
This will generate a series of dummy variables educd1 educd2 etc for each of the education categories. Then either stick with the original names or use rename.

[@santoshpanigrahi5212]

It would be helpful if u do it in R as well.

[@lan8854]

can you recode missings in all variables at once? for instance, if all missing variables were coded with a 99, is there a command to replace all 99 to missing in all variables?

[@MumblingProfessor]

try using the recode command so
recode VARIABLENAME (-7 -9 = .)

[@zerinimam]

Thank you very much

[@icvklpm]

Thank you Sir

[@zahid852]

so you have calculated the mean of a categorical variable??????????????