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st: RE: values to labels


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: values to labels
Date   Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:06:40 -0600

Here is one way:

levelsof year, local(levels)
local i = 1
foreach l of local levels {
	local mylabels "`mylabels' `i' `l'"
	local ++i
	}
label define label `mylabels'
label values round label


Hope this helps,
Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Caleb Southworth
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: values to labels
> 
> Is there a convenient way to convert the values of one variable into
> labels? For example, if rounds of survey are given in a particular year,
> then
> 
> . tab round, sum(year)
> 
>       round |           Summary of year
>      number |        Mean   Std. Dev.       Freq.
> ------------+------------------------------------
>           1 |        1992           0        4763
>           2 |        1993           0        6037
>           5 |        1994           0        2787
>           6 |        1995           0        2650
>           7 |        1996           0        2611
>           8 |        1998           0        2651
>           9 |        2000           0        2733
>          10 |        2001           0        3201
>          11 |        2002           0        3339
>          12 |        2003           0        3351
> ------------+------------------------------------
>       Total |   1996.8892   3.9638084       34123
> 
> Of course, I could define labels for round and label its values. My desire
> is to automate this process over several surveys and many variables to
> label graph axes. Thanks!
> 
> Caleb



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