/*
   This propgram creates new measures based on existing 
     GSS variables.  Three of them --sexfreq1, reliten1, 
	 and attend1--are, more or less, continuous measurements.  

   Note the use of local macros and an extended
     function to capture an existing variable label
	 and then assign it to the new variables.  See
	 -help local- for details.
*/

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log using "SOCY699C-HW4-REGRESS-SETUP.txt", text replace

/* Create continuous measures */
#delimit ;
capture drop sexfrq;
local vlabel : variable label sexfreq;
recode sexfreq (0=  0)
               (1=  2)
               (2= 12)
               (3= 30)
               (4= 52)
               (5=156)
               (6=208), gen(sexfrq);
label variable sexfrq "`vlabel'";

capture drop attend1;
local vlabel : variable label attend;
recode attend  (0=  0)
               (1=  0.5)
               (2=  1)
               (3=  6)
               (4= 12)
               (5= 30)
               (6= 45)
               (7= 52)
               (8= 59), gen(attend1);
label variable attend1 "`vlabel'";
			   
capture drop reliten1;
local vlabel : variable label reliten;
recode reliten (1=  1 "strong")
               (2=  3 "not very strong")
               (3=  2 "somewhat strong")
               (4=  4 "no religion"), gen(reliten1);
label variable reliten1 "`vlabel'";
#delimit cr    

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