Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?

[Anna Reimondos <areimondos@gmail.com>]

Hello,
And thank you both for your suggestions.  I find it a bit hard to
articulate problems sometimes when it comes to variable names, value
names and value labels so my question was perhaps not very clear.

I would like to rename the name of the labels rather than the names of
the variables.

For example
sysuse, auto
des

*Here I would want the value label called 'origin' to change to be
called 'foreign' to match the name of the variable name it is attached
to.

As Phillip pointed out this is not necessary thing do to, but I must
do this because I am cleaning a survey dataset that has very
particular rules about how the variable names and value labels are
defined and they have asked me to do this....

Thanks,
Anna




On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Tim Wade <wadetj@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not 100% certain what you are asking but if you want to relabel
> the newly generated variables so that the labels are the same as the
> new variable names, this should work:
>
>
> sysuse auto.dta, clear
> rename make make1
> rename price price1
> desc make1 price1
> foreach var of varlist make1 price1 {
> label variable `var' "`var'"
> }
> desc make1 price1
>
>
>              storage  display     value
> variable name   type   format      label      variable label
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> make1           str18  %-18s                  make1
> price1          int    %8.0gc                 price1
>
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Anna Reimondos <areimondos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The following problem has me stumped.
>> I have a dataset with variables which have been labelled with value
>> labels. Currently the variables are names as "a1, a2, a3" etc, and  I
>> need to rename all my variables so that they are listed as "V1, V2,
>> V3" etc. This I can easily do. The problem is that I also need to
>> rename all the value label names to match the new variable names.
>>
>> For example, the current situation is:
>>
>> varname  label name
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> a1            a1
>> a2            a2
>> a3            yesno
>> a4            gender
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> What I need to have is:
>>
>> varname  label name
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> V1            V1
>> V2            V2
>> V3            V3
>> V4            V4
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can rename the label names
>> to match the variable names? I found a number of similar questions on
>> Statalist but most seem to be going the other way (i.e from renaming
>> variables to match the label names)
>>
>> Thanks heaps
>> Anna
>>
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