Stata101: Inspecting, Conditions, Saving and Sorting, and Manipulating Variables Stata102: Labeling, Variable Types, Unique IDs & Duplicates, Macros and Locals, Loops ...

A “dummy” or “indicator” variable takes on a value of either 0 or 1. The appeal of these particular values is that they are numerical and can be used with routines that only accept numerical data ...