Half correct.
See http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/variables.html
Why half-correct? Because it is possible to automate
keeping the labels and putting them back ago, by using
a wrapper program. That is, the "manual" solution is
not the only one.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sascha O.
> Becker
> Sent: 02 March 2004 14:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: -collapse-
>
>
> Dear statalisters,
>
> another labeling question:
> -collapse- automatically changes variable labels of collapsed
> variables
> to "report" what has been done in the -collapse-.
> While this is probably a good default option to keep you from messing
> things up and "warning" you that the collapsed data set is different
> from the original one, it might be useful in some other cases to keep
> the original variable label.
> As I understand it, there is no option to do this and one has to
> "manually" relabel the collapsed variable if one wants to "keep" the
> original variable label, right?
>
> Cheers, Sascha
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