Mr. Collins,
Unless you forgot to include it, judging from your e-mail you have
omitted the label values step.
label var group "Experimental Status";
label define grouplbl 1 "Treatment" 0 "Control";
label values group grouplbl;
Adding the third step should solve your problem.
DVM
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Paul M. Collins Jr. wrote:
> Ive encountered a rather staggering problem. I have a do file that
> attaches variable label names (using �label variable�) and value labels
> (using �label define�). After I run the file, and save the changes, STATA
> drops the value labels, but keeps the label names.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to save (keep) both the value labels and
> label names?
>
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> Paul M. Collins Jr.
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> Department of Political Science
> Binghamton University
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