creating a new variable.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com> wrote:
Hello, all. The following is for my own research. I have attached the relevant data in pdf from Transparency International. I am only interested in the "CPI 2010 scores" column. I am interested in creating a variable for several of these countries. The idea is, they will become a country level aggregate IV "corruption". I am running models on about 10 countries, individually. The DV will be essentially "democracy" with some other controls. I have the dv coded and need help with the IV. I am interested in how to create a new variable for CPI. This is new to me. I have created some variables (some complex some not so complex) but usually I do not need to create variables my own variables from scratch so I really don't know how to do this. I looked online but have not been able to find anything relevant. I am sure something is out there and I am missing it. CPI is ranked 1-10. 10= least amount of corruption, 1 being the most. It is continuous. For example, Russia is ranked at 2.1; how would I create a variable for Russia? Once I get one, I know I will get the others.
How is that 2.1 calculated? You might want the ?transform or ?within functions if it's easily expressed as a function of other variables in your data frame. MW
Any direction would be very helpful: a link, command, etc. Thanks in advance. ~Nicole Ford Ph.D. student Graduate Assistant/ Instructor University of South Florida Government and International Affairs office: SOC 012M
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