With this definition, your command
should presumably be
label val agecat agecat
(_not_ agecatv). So on your evidence
this is just a typo.
-label values- and -replace- do quite
different things, so I don't know in
what sense you regard them as comparable.
Most of the point of value labels is to
associate text with integer-valued categorical
variables. An alternative would be to map such variables
on to strings, but then the natural sort order
would be alphanumeric, not numeric, and in
addition many Stata commands are not available
for string variables.
So if I grade books
1 excellent
2 good
3 fair
4 poor
5 abysmal
that ordering is lost by a mapping to strings.
There is more discussion of numbers and strings
in Stata Journal 2(3):314--329 (2002).
Nick
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Paul O'Brien
> Can someone explain my error please. agecat is not accepting
> the value
> labels.
>
> ......
> . gen agecat=recode(age, 16, 20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,80)
> (100 missing values generated)
>
> . label define agecat 16 "<16" 20 "16-19" 25 "20-24" 30 "25-29" 35
> "30-34" 40 "35-39" 45 "40-44" 50 "45-
> > 49" 55 "50-54" 60 "55-59" 65 "60-64" 70 "65-69" 75 "70-74"
> 80 "75-79"
>
> . label values agecat agecatv
>
> . list in 1
>
> Observation 1
>
> age 20.08487 ... agecat 25
> ......
>
> Also, any reason for using value labels over replace?
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