Nick - Sorry. Let me try to give more information:
Here is what I'm trying to do:
I have variables (q143-q152) with values 1 to 4 with the labels
1 strongly agree
2 agree somewhat
3 disagree
4 strongly disagree
98 don't know
99 refused
I want to create new variables (q143r-152r)in which values 98 and 99 are
recoded as . and values 1 to 4 are in reverse order and the new labels
are:
1 "strongly disagree" 2 "disagree" 3"agree somewhat" 4"strongly agree"
Here is what I've done:
1) I defined labels:
label define agreesc 1 "strongly disagree" 2 "disagree" 3"agree
somewhat" 4"strongly agree"
2) I then recode the old variable into new variables and added the label
agreesc to the new variables (the text below is all on one line in my
code):
recode q143 q144 q145 q146 q147 q149 q150 q151 q152 (1=4) (2=3) (3=2)
(4=1), gen(q143r q144r q145r q146r q147r q149r q150r q151r q152r) label
(agreesc)
3) I compared my old & new variable and found that the new variables did
not have value labels:
. tab q143 q143r
q143. in this |
organization, it | RECODE of q143 (q143. in this organization,
is more important | it is more important to get inpu)
to get inpu | 1 2 3 4 |
Total
------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------
--
strongly agree | 0 0 0 125 |
125
agree somewhat | 0 0 124 0 |
124
disagree | 0 86 0 0 |
86
strongly disagree | 29 0 0 0 |
29
------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------
--
Total | 29 86 124 125 |
364
4) If I manually add the labels & run the same table I get the result I
was looking for. However, I don't understand why step 2 above did not do
add the value labels for variables q143r to q152r.
. label values q143r agreesc
. tab q143 q143r
q143. in this |
organization, it | RECODE of q143 (q143. in this organization,
is more important | it is more important to get inpu)
to get inpu | strongly disagree agree som strongly |
Total
------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------
--
strongly agree | 0 0 0 125 |
125
agree somewhat | 0 0 124 0 |
124
disagree | 0 86 0 0 |
86
strongly disagree | 29 0 0 0 |
29
------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------
--
Total | 29 86 124 125 |
364
Any advise you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Alexandra
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: Label problem
As Michael Blasnik said in a recent thread
It's not very helpful to say "but it doesn't work" -- if you want help
you should say why it doesn't work -- did Stata give you an error? Were
the
results not what you expected?
Nick
[email protected]
Alexandra de Montrichard
> I'm trying to attach labels as part of a recode but although
> it looks to
> me as if I have the same code as in one of the stata help examples it
> doesn't work.
>
> recode q143 q144 q145 q146 q147 q149 q150 q151 q152 (1=4) (2=3) (3=2)
> (4=1), gen(q143r q144r q145r q146r q147r q149r q150r q151r q152r)
> label(agreesc)
>
> The regular label assignment syntax works fine: label values q143r
> agreesc
>
> Any pointers as to what the problem might be would be greatly
> appreciated.
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