Thank you Nick. I think I'll go the tab way.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:46:29 -0000, "Nick Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are several ways to tackle this.
>
> 1. Don't use -xi:-. Create your dummies upstream, e.g. using -tabulate-.
> Then their variable labels will be explanatory.
>
> 2. Check out -dummieslab- from SSC by P. van Kerm and another.
>
> 3. Write a loop to map value labels to variable labels. Given 1 and 2, I
> won't spell that out here.
>
> 4. No doubt others.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Thomas
>
> Suppose I have this value label assigned to the variable totavmte_q:
>
> totavmte_q_lab:
> 1 <=Q1 (43.25)
> 2 Q1 to <=Q2 (64.35)
> 3 Q2 to <=Q3 (96.54)
> 4 >Q3
>
> and I want to regress:
>
> xi: logistic status i.totavmte_q
>
> Stata will nicely create the following dummies:
>
> _Itotavmte__2
> _Itotavmte__3
> _Itotavmte__4
>
> Now I want to label the dummy variables so that they reflect the value
> labels
>
> e.g.
> . label variable _Itotavmte__2 "Q1 to <=Q2 (64.35)"
>
> I am wondering if there is a way to label the dummy variables by way of
> referencing their associated value labels (these var labels will be used
> in
> the contest of the user-written estout program).
>
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