Re: st: RE: RE: RE: suggestion for Stata 8: value labels for string variables

["Erik �. S�rensen" <sameos@mac.com>]

On fredag, okt 25, 2002, at 13:04 America/Montreal, Nick Winter wrote:

> It seems to me that the answer here is to store the "labels" in a
> separate string variable.  Then you can use the short name variable or
> the long name variable (ie, the "value" or the "label") as you like.
This may be fine if possible, but for those of us who regularly work 
with millions of observations, it is often not feasible. That it is not 
possible to label string values is a shortcoming that should be fixed 
in future releases.

best regards,
Erik.


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Erik �. S�rensen,  <http://www.geocities.com/erik_oiolf/>.
phd student (economics), Norwegian School of Economics.
currently visiting Queen's University, Kingston Ontario.

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