st: Tabulate with codes *and* value labels?

[Mike Lacy <Michael.Lacy@colostate.edu>]

I often find I would like a simple oneway tabulation that shows both 
the numeric codes and the labels for a variable, not just or the 
other. This is quite useful before and after a recode, for example. 
I'm thinking of something like the following mocked-up trivial 
example, in which 0 and 1 as well as "foreign" and "domestic" show up 
in the tabulation:

   Car type |      Freq.     Percent
------------+--------------------------
Domestic  0 |         52       70.27
 Foreign  1 |         22       29.73
------------+--------------------------
      Total |         74      100.00


For some time I was convinced an answer to this question must lie 
somewhere in the archives, but I must not have hit the right 
combination of keywords if it is. Since I gather there is no built-in 
solution, could someone at least sketch how to make a program to 
obtain the value label associated with a given variable, and display 
that info. in a nice way?

Thanks,

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Mike Lacy
Fort Collins CO USA
(970) 491-6721 office






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