Colin M Fischbacher
>
> Direct standardisation with -dstdize- produces output where
> the groups
> are labelled with the category value rather than its label.
> Particularly
> when you break down the results by several variables this produces
> results that are not very readable. The manual (p398) shows
> correctly
> labelled output in one example but shows values only in
> another (p400).
>
> Is there a way of attaching value labels to the summary output of
> dstdize?
There's code in -dstdize- to pick up
value labels. The reason the cities
are not labelled in the example on p.400
is that the cities are not labelled
in that data set, as seen by reading in
the data and looking at them:
. u http://www.stata-press.com/data/r7/hbp.dta
Nick
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