My bias towards lower case slipped through.
Evidently what you need is
gen grade1 = "Excellent" if GRADE == "A"
i.e. the command is taken quite literally.
Nick
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Mosca, Ilaria
> Thanks for the hint. But although the command works, why do I get an
> empty column as a result? That is to say:
> Grade grade1
> A
> B
> C
Nick Cox
> 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 grade1 = "Excellent" if GRADE == "a"
> replace grade = "Very good" if GRADE == "b"
>
> etc.
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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