st: RE: How do you look up a value label?

["Richard Atkins" <Richard.Atkins@lshtm.ac.uk>]

Just what I wanted - in fact I had seen a couple of these used in other
people's code (e.g. value label) but hadn't found them in the Stata help
system.  Since you named them below I have now managed to browse to the
right page "help extended_fcn" and this set of functions looks like it
will be really useful. ... so multiple thanks.  


>>> david.harrison@icnarc.org 06/12/06 4:59 pm >>>
Use the macro extended function -label-, e.g.

. local lab1 : label valuecats 1

. di "`lab1'"
one

David 

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Subject: st: How do you look up a value label?

Is there an easy way to look up a value label? 

To illustrate, imagine I have a variable 'value' containing integer
values 1 2 or 8 for numerous cases.
I define value labels

. lab def valuecats 1"one" 2"two" 8"a few" 
. lab val values valuecats

then tabulate it and save result in matricees

. tab values, matcell(F) matrow(V)

Now I want to extract the information to form my own table.

I can access the value V[3,1] which (in this case) will be 9.  However
this number is now isolated from the original variable and label
mapping. Is there any simple(ish) lookup function I can use to map
from
a value to a value label? Presumably there must be as Stata is able to
do this but is it accessible to us mortals?

P.S. I am aware I could use the 'uselabel' command to obtain a dataset
with these mappings but I want to be able to do this without
destroying
the original data.

Thanks.


Richard J. Atkins
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
E-mail: richard.atkins@lshtm.ac.uk 
Homepage: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ncdeu/staff/ratkins.html 

Tel: 020 7927 2968  

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