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Re: st: Variable labels with proportion
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Variable labels with proportion
Date
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:10:15 -0500
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
<[email protected]> 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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