st: RE: adding the variable name to the label text

["Sarah Edgington" <sedging@ucla.edu>]

Kevin,
It's not clear from what you posted what you've tried to do to change the
labels.
Adding the following line at the end of your loop should accomplish what you
need:
label var `x' "`x' `u'"

-Sarah

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Snapp, Kevin
Michael
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:27 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: adding the variable name to the label text

I have a large PSID file I am working on.  As many of you will know the
variable names aren't the most informative.  I would like to add the current
variable names (like ER360001) to the front of the variable label string.
After that is done I will go through and manually rename the variables that
I want one by one.  If have been able to use the following  to display what
I want in the new label's, but I can't seem to change the labels.

. foreach x of varlist _all{
  2. local u : variable label `x'
  3. display  "`x'"  " " "`u'"
  4. }

Any input is appreciated.

Kevin Snapp


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