I was having the same problem today...
If you labeled the values, then when outsheeting STATA will outsheet the
labels, not the original values.
The command is
. outsheet using <filename>, replace nolabel
Hope this solves your problem.
Charles Thibault
www.corzen.com
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ulrich Kohler
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: saving .dta files with codes replacing numbers
Wolfgang Polasek wrote:
> When I save the data for exporting it into Excel I get the numerical
> codes and not the string variables as I see them in the data editor.
>
> What should I do to get the the string variables in a spread sheet?
. outsheet using <filename>
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