As Michael Blasnik said in a recent thread
It's not very helpful to say "but it doesn't work" -- if you want help
you should say why it doesn't work -- did Stata give you an error? Were the
results not what you expected?
Nick
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Alexandra de Montrichard
> I'm trying to attach labels as part of a recode but although
> it looks to
> me as if I have the same code as in one of the stata help examples it
> doesn't work.
>
> recode q143 q144 q145 q146 q147 q149 q150 q151 q152 (1=4) (2=3) (3=2)
> (4=1), gen(q143r q144r q145r q146r q147r q149r q150r q151r q152r)
> label(agreesc)
>
> The regular label assignment syntax works fine: label values q143r
> agreesc
>
> Any pointers as to what the problem might be would be greatly
> appreciated.
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