I would do this. I assume value labels attached
to -marEduc-.
separate aRate, by(marEduc) shortlabel
local aRatevars "`r(varlist)'"
twoway connected `aRatevars' year
Sometimes even the -shortlabel- is too long.
(There should be an option -veryshortlabel-
to go beyond the -shortlabel- I suggested
a while back.)
ssc inst labutil
labnoeq `aRatevars'
will cut them down further. The first principles
way to do that is something like
foreach v of local aRatevars {
local label : variable label `v'
local eq = index(`"`label'", "=") - 1
local label = substr(`"`label'",1,`eq')
label var `v' `"`label'"'
}
Nick
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Danielle H. Ferry
> I would like to make Stata use the value labels for my variable
> <marEduc> as the descriptive text in the legend for a
> scatterplot. See
> below - right now, I have specified the descriptive text
> specifically.
> Is there a way to get Stata to do this automatically?
>
> twoway (connected aRate year if marEduc==1)
> (connected aRate year if marEduc==2)
> (connected aRate year if marEduc==3)
> (connected aRate year if marEduc==4)
> (connected aRate year if marEduc==5)
> (connected aRate year if marEduc==6),
> legend(label(1 "Unmarried/<12 yrs")
> label(2 "Unmarried/12 yrs")
> label(3 "Unmarried/13+ yrs")
> label(4 "Married/<12 yrs")
> label(5 "Married/12 yrs")
> label(6 "Marred/13+ yrs")) ;
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