st: Re: Multiple value labels

["Rosy Reynolds" <rr@dandr.demon.co.uk>]

Nick Cox's nifty program -labmask-, part of the -labutil- suite, will do the
job. It assigns the values (or optionally value labels) of one variable as
the value labels of another.
-findit labutil-

Rosy Reynolds
BSAC Resistance Surveillance Co-ordinator
www.bsacsurv.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:44 PM
Subject: st: Multiple value labels



> Hi--
> I have the following in my data:
> obs        var1           var2
> 1         304                House
> 2         666                Land
> 3         200                Building
> 4         304                House
> 5         304                House
> ...       ...                  ....
>
> where var2 contains the labels for var1. Since I have many labels it will
> not be easy to create the labels for var1 by hand. Is there an easy
> procedure to make stata recognize that there is an unique correspondence
> between var1 and var2 and to label var1 using var2?
> Thanks for your help!
> MA_V
>
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