Manipulating sample

[Zividodo]

Hello,

I have a sample in which any cell can obtain values between 1 and 4. I would like to change the values 1,3 and 4 into 0 and the value 2 into 1. Can anyone please give me a hint? I use Eviews 6.0

Thanks!

[startz]

@recode

[Zividodo]

thank you, but how can use this command exactly?

lets assume, the initial variable is called X and I want to generate a new variable Z in order to obtain only values with 0 and 1. would then the command be

genr z = @recode (X=2, 1, 0)

?

[EViews Glenn]

The manual should be pretty clear about how to use @recode. Since you only have 4 values that your original series can take, that should do what you want. Values of X equal to 2 are mapped to 1, and all others to 0.