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Re: st: Labelling of categorical variables in regression outputs
From
William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Labelling of categorical variables in regression outputs
Date
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:33:13 -0700
Hi Amal,
There are options with -esttab- and -estout- (both available from ssc) that allow you to relabel the coefficients.
- Billy
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On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:14, Amal Khanolkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been runnning regression models (linear & logistic) and my main exposure variable has 20 categories, including the reference. Having so many categories it often takes time to read the output as I forget what the categories are. In regression models, Stata names the categories as numbers '2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc....'.
>
> Is there any way by which I can tell Stata to instead the use the original labels for the categories?
>
> The maine xpsore variable is country of birth as follows:
>
> mother's country of |
> birth | Freq. Percent Cum.
> --------------------+-----------------------------------
> Sweden | 2,593,143 86.69 86.69
> Western Europe + NA | 71,736 2.40 89.09
> Finland | 108,326 3.62 92.71
> Eastern Europe | 15,636 0.52 93.23
> Poland | 18,179 0.61 93.84
> F. Yugoslavia | 34,110 1.14 94.98
> Arab league | 8,687 0.29 95.27
> Iraq | 13,004 0.43 95.71
> Lebanon | 12,295 0.41 96.12
> Somalia | 7,122 0.24 96.36
> Syria | 9,360 0.31 96.67
> Turkey | 22,083 0.74 97.41
> Iran | 11,717 0.39 97.80
> South Asia | 9,341 0.31 98.11
> Ethiopia+Eritrea | 6,917 0.23 98.34
> East asia | 23,162 0.77 99.12
> Latin America | 10,111 0.34 99.46
> Chile | 10,512 0.35 99.81
> Africa | 5,759 0.19 100.00
>
>
> - I've tried using the esttab & esttout commands but I haven't been able to solve the problem. I still get models where the above categories are labelled as numbers.
>
> - so far I've used:
>
> esttab, ci wide.
>
> I wasn't able to find a function for the labelling.
>
> - Could the porblem lie in how I have created the above labelling?
>
> Thanks & regards,
> /Amal.
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