Value labels in Stata are associations between
numeric values and text labels.
You can get what you want in Stata only by
generating another string variable.
gen grade = "Excellent" if GRADE == "a"
replace grade = "Very good" if GRADE == "b"
etc.
Nick
[email protected]
Mosca, Ilaria
> I would like to assign labels to a variable. This variable,
> however, has
> no numeric values but letters. So I have something like:
> GRADE
> A
> A
> B
> B
> C
> D
> I would like to label "A" as "excellent", "B" as "very good", etc.
> So far I tried the following command, but unsuccesfully:
> Label define grade a "excellent", add
>
> Is the problem due to the fact that Stata does not recognize letters?
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