Re: st: Variable labels with proportion

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

sysuse auto, clear
svyset [pw=weight]
label define quality 1 "bad" 2 "bad" 3 "bad" 4 "ok" 5 "ok"
label values rep78 quality

svy : tab rep78

recode rep78 (1/3=0 "bad") (4/5=1 "ok"), generate(newrep78)
svy : tab newrep78

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Geoff Dougherty
<geoffdougherty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all. I am using svy: proportion to calculate percentages for a long list of variables. I am wondering if there's a way to have the output display the variable labels rather than variable names. I saw an indication in an old listserv post that this may not be possible, so if anyone has an idea for a workaround, that would be great.
>
> Also, I'm wrestling with creating a value label that will display categorical variables as binary:
>
> #delimit ;
>  label define tobinary
>    1    "Yes"
>    2    "No"
>    7    "No"
>    8    "No"
>    9    "No"
>    ;
>
>  However, values 2-9 are showing up as individual levels in the output. Any idea how to remedy this without recoding a long list of variables?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff Dougherty
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