Re: st: Label variable

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 07:11 AM 2/23/2006, Mosca, Ilaria wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> 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?
> Many thanks in advance for you help.
From -help label-

"label define defines a list of up to 65,536 (1,000 for Small Stata) 
associations of integers and text called value labels.  Value labels 
are attached to variables by label values."

So, it sounds like you would have to create an integer counterpart to 
your string variable if you want labels.



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