Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: st: label wide format variables with same label for different years
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: label wide format variables with same label for different years
Date
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:55:35 +0100
Giving different variables the same label still sounds at best an odd idea.
Nick
[email protected]
On 18 June 2013 12:47, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you! For some reasons I do not want to bother you with, I need
> this data to be in wide format.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 18 June 2013 11:58
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: label wide format variables with same label for
> different years
>
> This seems most unlikely to be a good idea, as many variables in graphs
> and tables would now be labelled identically despite different meanings.
> The more general problem is that this data structure (I won't sign up to
> the word "format" here) is poor for the majority of panel or
> longitudinal problems. A -reshape- is strongly advisable.
>
> I am reluctant to hand you a loaded gun, but what you want is
>
> foreach v of var income_* {
> label var `v' "income"
> }
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 11:52, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters,
>>
>> My data is in wide format and I would like to give the same label to
> several variables in different years.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> income_2013 income_2012
>> 10 8
>>
>> I want to label both income_2013 and income_2012 as "income". Since I
>> have many years, I am looking for a way of doing this with one command
>
>> line instead of
>>
>> label variable income_2013 "income"
>> label variable income_2012 "income"
>>
>> I intuitively tried
>>
>> label variable income_* "income" but this does not work, and I could
> not find an answer online.
>>
>> Thank you for your help with this!
>> Isa
>>
>> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic
>> communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer
>>
>> *
>> * For searches and help try:
>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/