generate dummy variables

[valeria capobianco]

Hi everyone,
i'm a Master Economics student and i'm new to the use of Stata, so i need some help
I have a continuos variable called "Deal_size" and i would like to generate a dummy variable according to the variable "Deal_size" itself.
In other words, i want a dummy variable=0 if deal_size is >= to 50000 and equal to 1 if Deal_size<50000.
How can i??
Thank you in advance!
V

[Rich Goldstein]

try this:

gen byte dummy = deal_size<5000
replace dummy=. if deal_size==.

you may or may not need (or want; you did not say what your rule was if deal-size was missing) the last line

[valeria capobianco]

it worked! thank you so much!!