I am working on a dataset of a study on healthcare workers. One of the variables I am studying is a categorical variable (variable name:EDUC, indicates educational achievement, with 6 levels: "illiterate", "primary", "junior high school", "high school completed", "undergraduate", and "postgraduate").
I want to collapse the 6 levels to a 4-level categorical variable (let's call it "educrec", with the following levels: "postgraduate", "undergraduate", "some schooling" and "illiterate").
I initially tried the following code:
x <- table(EDUC)
educrec <- c(x[1], x[2], (x[3]+x[4]+x[5]), x[6]))
table(educrec) gives me the tally count just fine, but I cannot use educrec in any cross tabulation.
Would greatly appreciate if you can advise on the correct way to recode categorical variables to categorical variables in R.
I use Windows XP (Home), R-version 1.7.1
I looked for solutions in the "introduction to R" and the archives, but wasn't successful.
-Arin Basu
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