I have a question. After I do -collapse- I want the labels to remain the same.
Suppose I do
collapse (first) state by ( year )
I want the label of state to remain " State " and not become (first)
state. How do I do this ?
Thank you,
Ashim.
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> The description is a little hazy, but he tools in data -> labels -> label
> values should be sufficient. First turn the string var and the numeric codes
> into a -value label-. -encode- might also be helpful for this exercise. Then
> -label save- the -value labels- and run the do file on the first dataset.
>
> Martin Weiss
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>> Dear all,
>> my apologies if this has been already covered. I will appreciate its
>> address if so.
>> I have a large dataset with numeric codes for a geographical division. In
>> another dataset I have the same codes and a string variable with the name
>> for each geographical division. Is there a way of using the name of the
>> division from the second dataset in the first dataset?.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance
>>
>> Jorge
>>
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