Dear Statlist Members,
I have a beginner's problem. I am using Stata/IC 10.0 for Windows. In
my data set I have a string (str3) type variable COUNTRY (see below).
It does not have missing cases. In this variable I wanted to recode
numeric country codes (Country ID) into country names (e.g. '040' is
being replaced by 'Austria' etc.). I used two commands:
label define COUNTRY_label 040 "AUSTRIA" 056 "BELGIUM" 203 "CZECH
REPUBLIC" 208 "DENMARK" 246 "FINLAND" 250 "FRANCE" 276 "GERMANY" 300
"GREECE" 348 "HUNGARY" 352 "ICELAND" 372 "IRELAND" 380 "ITALY" 428
"LATVIA" 438 "LIECHTENSTEIN" 442 "LUXEMBOURG" 528 "NETHERLAND" 578
"NORWAY" 616 "POLAND" 620 "PORTUGAL" 703 "SLOVAKIA" 724 "SPAIN" 752
"SWEDEN" 756 "SWITZERLAND" 826 "UNITED KINGDOM"
label values COUNTRY COUNTRY_label
but STATa's response to the second command was:
may not label strings
r(181);
How can I recode labels in the string variable? Or where I can look
for information how to do that?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Tomasz Drabowicz
1st Year Research Student
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
Italy
tab COUNTRY
Country ID | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
040 | 4,597 3.44 3.44
056 | 8,796 6.58 10.03
203 | 6,320 4.73 14.76
208 | 4,218 3.16 17.91
246 | 5,796 4.34 22.25
250 | 4,300 3.22 25.47
276 | 4,660 3.49 28.96
300 | 4,627 3.46 32.42
348 | 4,765 3.57 35.99
352 | 3,350 2.51 38.50
372 | 3,880 2.90 41.40
380 | 11,639 8.71 50.11
428 | 4,627 3.46 53.58
438 | 332 0.25 53.83
442 | 3,923 2.94 56.76
528 | 3,992 2.99 59.75
578 | 4,064 3.04 62.79
616 | 4,383 3.28 66.07
620 | 4,608 3.45 69.52
703 | 7,346 5.50 75.02
724 | 10,791 8.08 83.10
752 | 4,624 3.46 86.56
756 | 8,420 6.30 92.86
826 | 9,535 7.14 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 133,593 100.00
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