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st: Label problem - fdasave
Using Stata 9.2, up to date, I am trying to convert a series of dta files
to SAS format.
After running for a while my program exits with the following error:
"value label sex not found"
When I examine the data I find the following:
. des sex
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sex byte %12.0g sex Sex
. unlabeled
| Value
Variable | Label #values unlabeled values
-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
questid | questid 3
sex | sex 2 0 1
ethnic1 | ethnic 5
metcriteria | yesno 2
pcscard | yesno 0
edlevel | edlevel 16
marital | marital 7
edcat | edcode2 5
. tab sex
Sex | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
0 | 1,570 77.61 77.61
1 | 453 22.39 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 2,023 100.00
. label drop sex
value label sex not found
r(111);
So, -describe- finds the label, but no other program does. Also, I can't
delete the non-existent label.
I don't know how the label got this way (sorry), for it usually shows:
. ndbuse fixed
(Survey Fixed Table version of 19 Aug 2006)
. label list sex
sex:
0 Female
1 Male
My question is this. While it is a small matter to relabel the variable, in
the program I am running I have >1,000 variables so I would like to fix or
bypass the problem under program control. Generically, how to I get rid of
a value label (that doesn't exist) such as this? Is my problem a bug or a
feature?
Thanks,
Fred
Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel +1 316 263 2125
[email protected]
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