Lars Korsholm
>
> I am sure that someone know a smart way to do what I want. :-)
>
> the sort version:
> Is it possible to obtain the label associated to a given value?
>
> The long verson:
> I am writing a small tabulation program. The user (also me)
> specify some
> of the levels that a kategorical (integer) veriabel has.
> and for each of
> these chosen levels the program produce one line of output.
>
> I would like the line to start with the label associated
> with the level
> and not the integer in my loop.
>
> i.e. something like
>
> program define mytab
> syntax varname, ni(numlist ..) ..
> foreach x in numlist `ni' {
> count if `varname'=�=`x' & ..
> di "level yyy:" `r(N)' ...
> }
> end
>
> where yyy is the contens of the label associated with varname
> that corespond to the value `x'
> If no label is assigned, then `x' must do.
David Moore has already pointed to extended
macro functions (see help for -macro-),
and he noted carefully that his comments
were based on Stata 6.
You can now go directly to
. local lbl : label (<varname>) <value>
or even
`: label (<varname>) <value>'
In a different key, note that your tabulation
as specified above can be tackled by -tabcount-
from SSC, which will
restrict values to a specified numlist
display counts
display value labels if defined
Nick
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