Hi,

I got some survey data. The raw data is in text, like for example there was a question about education where the responses are "undergraduate degree", "postgraduate degree" etc. Now, I'd like to turn this into binary variables (one "undergraduate" variable, one "postgraduate" variable etc). I know that this can be done manually though it's quite time-consuming, but I was wondering if this process could be automated somehow using STATA.

I was thinking of generating a variable and then have the variable take the value 1 when the response was in a certain way (so the value "undergraduate" takes the value 1 when the response is "Undergraduate degree". However, when I tried this I got a "type mismatch" error.

Is there any way to get around this or should I just start translating the data into 1's and 0's manually?