Re: st: For Loop Using Variable Labels

[Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com>]

Yes, I do mean value label. Apologies for confusing terminology.

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> You say
>
> "I'd like to use
> the "levelsof" command on the variable label instead of the variable
> values, since the label for the lowest category will always be in the
> dataset, but there may not be a variable value for each response
> category"
>
> When you say _variable label_ do you mean _value label_ ? .
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 24 June 2013 23:40, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's say I wanted to write to a file the number of responses to a
>> variety of survey questions with different categories. I'll use the
>> voter dataset to illustrate what I want to do.
>>
>> **********************
>> *Stata Code*
>>
>> cd C:/PATH/Data/
>> sysuse voter, clear
>> keep candidat-inc
>> drop if inc == 1  /*Drop if inc variable is equal to 1 (< $15k)*/
>>
>> file open mefile using ../Data/Test.txt, write replace
>> file write mefile "Variable" _tab "Value" _tab "Number" _tab "Total" _tab _n
>>
>> foreach v of varlist candidat-inc{ /*For each variable in the dataset:*/
>>    levelsof `v', local(temp) /*Store variable values in a local macros.*/
>>
>>    foreach t of local temp{ /*For each value of the variable:*/
>>       file write mefile "`v'" _tab /*Write variable name to file,*/
>>       file write mefile "`t'" _tab /*Write question response to file,*/
>>       summarize `v' if `v' == `t'
>>       file write mefile "`r(N)'" _tab /*Write value to file,*/
>>    }
>>    summarize `v'
>>    file write mefile "`r(N)'" _tab _n /*Write total number of
>> responses to the question (variable) to file.*/
>> }
>>
>> file close mefile
>> **********************
>>
>> So I dropped the lowest income category from the dataset (let's assume
>> there were no responses in that particular category). I'd like to use
>> the "levelsof" command on the variable label instead of the variable
>> values, since the label for the lowest category will always be in the
>> dataset, but there may not be a variable value for each response
>> category. How would one do that?
>>
>> Thanks!
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