How to write a local variable as a set of dummies

[Gabriele Goduto]

Hi everyone,
I am a beginner, so my question could sound fool for someone, sorry about that.

I'm working with a set of 51 dummies and I need to create a local variable to collect them all.
Dummies are generated from the same variable, so they have the same name with a different scalar at the end [every dummy is called "birth_state(number)"].
Could I implement a loop? How?

Thank you a lot

[Tiago Pereira]

can you provide us with more details? If possible, use -dataex-.

[Nick Cox]

You could use a local macro to store the indicator (you say "dummy") names as say

local myindicators birth_state1-birth_state51

but there is rarely need or advantage in doing that. In most contexts you can just refer to the wildcard directly, as say birth_state1-birth_state51 In fact, using factor variable notation often makes holding such indicators unnecessary,

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