This article describes kountry, a data-management command that can be used to translate one country-coding scheme into another, to recode country names into a "standardized form", and to generate geographic-region variables. Users can build a custom dictionary through a helper command, kountryadd, that "teaches" kountry new name variations. The dictionary can be protected from an accidental overwriting through two helper commands: kountrybackup and kountryrestore. Copyright 2008 by StataCorp LP.
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Volume (Year): 8 (2008) Issue (Month): 3 (September) Pages: 390-400 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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