st: String or numeric variable hours?

[Phil Bardsley <phil_bardsley@unc.edu>]

Jon,

The fact that you were able to summarize the variable and get other than 0 obs 
indicates it is a numeric variable. As another reply suggested,
-ta hours, nolabel-
will tell you the actual values (as did your summarize command).

If you
-describe hours-
you'll see a value label name associated with the variable under the column 
heading "value label". You can then
-label list <name>-
to see the values that have the label associated with them, where <name> is the 
value label name (without the brackets). If you don't want the label you can
-label drop <name>-
to get rid of it.

. by secnum: sum hours

----------------------------------------------------------------------
-> secnum = 1 cathy

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       hours |         1          89           .         89         89
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Phil Bardsley
Carolina Population Center
phil_bardsley@unc.edu
919-966-2825

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