Tewodaj Mogues wrote:
> Here's something I've been trying to figure out for a while, even though
> it seems so straightforward. How do I take a regular numerical variable
> called COLOUR that takes on the values 1, 2, and 3, and change it into a
> categorical variable so that 1 becomes "green", 2 becomes "blue" and 3
> "white"? I.e. when viewing the data in the data editor, say, I want to see
> the colour names and not the numbers. And yet if I were, say, to type
> sum colour
> I want it to give me as the min "1, the max "3", the mean and std.dev.
> etc. So I don't want to make the variable a string variable.
Two steps:
(1) . label define colours 1 green 2 blue 3 white
(2) . label values colour colours
> A related question: Once I have achieved that, is there a way I can make
> the data editor window show me the number values instead of the name
> values of such categorical variables. That is, is there a way to toggle
> between one view and the other? SPSS, which is in many other ways of
> course inferior to stata, does however have such a toggle option that
> stata doesn't seem to have.
I'm not aware of any such toggle option, but I agree that having such an
option would be very beneficial.
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