How to set up qualatative data as a set of binary variables for regression analysis?

DanielManiel

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I am doing a regression analysis and have some data from a survey. One column is ethnicity. The way the data is set up is:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Yearly Salary
[/TD]
[TD]Ethnicity[/TD]
[TD]Age[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD]Black[/TD]
[TD]25[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]87[/TD]
[TD]White[/TD]
[TD]24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]57[/TD]
[TD]Black[/TD]
[TD]65[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]94[/TD]
[TD]Hispanic[/TD]
[TD]45[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

But I would like it set up so that each ethnicity is it's own column:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Yearly Salary
[/TD]
[TD]Black[/TD]
[TD]White[/TD]
[TD]Age[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]25[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]87[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]57[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]65[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]94[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]45[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]


Is there a fast way of doing this in excel?
Thanks! :)
 

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ABCD
1Yearly SalaryEthnicityAge
2100Black25
387White24
457Black65
594Hispanic45
6
7
8
9Yearly SalaryBlackWhiteAge
101001025
11870124
12571065
13940045
14
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B10=SUMPRODUCT(($A10=$A$2:$A$5)*(B$9=$B$2:$B$5))
C10=SUMPRODUCT(($A10=$A$2:$A$5)*(C$9=$B$2:$B$5))
D10=VLOOKUP(A10,$A$2:$C$5,3,0)
 
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