Re: st: RE: Variable labels with proportion

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Dear Geoff, see my another email with an example.
Actually in the 'Wishes and grumbles' session of one of the recent
Stata user group meetings I made a wish to have interval labels, such
as:
label define occupation 1/999 "agriculture" 1000/1999 "services",
etc, which I needed e.g. for the -usecspro- since they are supported
in CSPro. For that Bill Gould answered 'maybe, sometimes, as long as
you don't want to create tables with this aggregation". I definitely
didn't need this aggregation in the tables, just display proper label
in the list/browse, but I guess you are one case. Best, Sergiy


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Geoff Dougherty
<geoffdougherty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I mentioned svy lest someone suggest I try tab, or something else that doesn't play nicely with svy but maintains the labels.
>
> It looks like I'll be able to get there by saving the svy: prop output to a dataset with parmest and then merging with a table of variable names/labels. I can then delete the rows that aren't "Yes", and calculate a new "No" variable as 1-yes.
>
>
> Best,
> Geoff Dougherty
> MPH candidate '14, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Health rankings data consultant, US News & World Report
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Joe Canner wrote:
>
>> Geoff,
>>
>> That is not a problem with -svy:- it appears to be a problem (feature?) with -proportion-, since it doesn't display variable labels when you don't use -svy- either.  The same is true, for example, with -total-.  In contrast, -tabulate- displays variable labels by default with or without -svy-.  This is probably something to report/suggest to Stata for a future update/version.
>>
>> I think you're out of luck on the second question.  The only option I am aware of is recoding the variable to make it actually binary.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Joe Canner
>> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Dougherty
>> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:01 PM
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: st: Variable labels with proportion
>>
>> 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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