Below is a snippet of code which does what I believe you are asking about.
It uses the pre-reshape variable names from one round of variables to label
the post reshape variables.
Steve
-------- begin code -------
qui for var h9site h9census h9famid h9intday h9intmon h9intyer h9fmansw
h9nfmemo: global lX : variable label X;
qui reshape long @site @census @famid @intday @intmon @intyer @fmansw
@nfmemo, i(houseid) j(round h5 h6 h7 h8 h9) string;
capture program drop labmove;
program define labmove;
syntax varlist, Pre(string);
foreach var of local varlist {;
la var `var' "${l`pre'`var'}";
};
end;
labmove site census famid intday intmon intyer fmansw nfmemo, pre(h9);
-------- end code --------
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> Dear Stata Users,
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> How to teel Stata to conserve the labels of variables while reshaping a
> dataset?
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