st: Getting at value labels

["Danielle H. Ferry" <dferry@nber.org>]

Hi all,

I would like to make Stata use the value labels for my variable 
<marEduc> as the descriptive text in the legend for a scatterplot. See 
below - right now, I have specified the descriptive text specifically. 
Is there a way to get Stata to do this automatically?

twoway (connected aRate year if marEduc==1)
	(connected aRate year if marEduc==2)
	(connected aRate year if marEduc==3)
	(connected aRate year if marEduc==4)
	(connected aRate year if marEduc==5)
	(connected aRate year if marEduc==6),
	legend(label(1 "Unmarried/<12 yrs")
	label(2 "Unmarried/12 yrs")
	label(3 "Unmarried/13+ yrs")
	label(4 "Married/<12 yrs")
	label(5 "Married/12 yrs")
	label(6 "Marred/13+ yrs")) ;

Thanks.

Danielle Ferry

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