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From | Venable <venablito@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Viewing variable labels and notes at the same time |
Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:08:05 -0400 |
Dear Statalist, Is it possible to view lists of variables that display both variable labels and notes at the same time? What I have in mind is something like the output one gets from display, except including any variable notes in the same line as the variable name, value label, variable label, etc. Currently, display shows an asterisk indicating that a given variable has notes - I suppose what I would like is for the actual note or notes to appear in place of the asterisk. For example: sysuse auto notes make: Test note 1 (make) notes price: Test note 2 (price) desc make price yields storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- make str18 %-18s * Make and Model price int %8.0gc * Price and what I would like to have is something like (with apologies for the formatting-by-hand) variable name variable label notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- make Make and Model Test note 1 (make) price Price Test note 2 (price) The reason I ask (in case there's a better way to address the problem) is that I use the variable label in tables and graphs, which requires using a fairly short label, but I also want to have information about the origin of a variable, which is better suited to a note. Many thanks in advance. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/