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st: Renaming all value labels in a dataset
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Mark McCann <[email protected]>
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st: Renaming all value labels in a dataset
Date
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:21:44 +0100
Hello all,
I'm having some problems with Stata SE 12.1 (and Stat-Transfer 10) in terms of merging files. I have several files that have been StatTransferred into Stata files, and the variables labels are auto-labelled LABA, LABB, LABC etc.
A problem occurs when these files are merged together, as LABA in file1.dta and file2.dta refer to different values.
Is there any way to rename all the value labels in a dataset with a prefix? Alternatively, is there a way to prefix value labels in StatTransfer? I was unable to find any advice in the help files beyond dropping and recreating variables, which given the number of files and variables would be very time consuming. Any advice on a faster process would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Mark
Research Statistician
Improving Children's Lives
Institute of Child Care Research
Queen's University Belfast
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Belfast BT7 1LP
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