Strictly, you can't do this, in the sense of
applying different value labels to any given
value of a particular variable.
What you can do is -generate- a string variable
and its values can be as arbitrary as you like.
gen mycatlabel = ""
replace mycatlabel = "A" if group == 1 & cat == 1
replace mycatlabel = "B" if group == 1 & cat == 2
What you could also do is form a composite variable:
egen catgroup = group(cat group)
label def catgroup 1 "A" 2 "B" ...
label val catgroup catgroup
To check what the mapping should be, you
might find -groups- from SSC useful. A sequence
could be
egen catgroup = group(cat group)
ssc inst groups, replace
groups catgroup cat group
and then work out what the labels should be.
Nick
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Patricia Vera Rojas
> group cat
> 1 1
> 1 1
> 1 2
> 1 2
> 2 1
> 2 1
> 2 2
> 3 1
> 3 2
>
> I want to label "cat" in this way : I want to
> label cat=1 by "A" if group=1 and by "B" if cat has the
> same value (cat=1) but if group=2.
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