You need to apply -decode- to the two numeric
variables with labels and compare the resulting
strings.
. search label
would have pointed you to -decode- (via the
help for -encode-).
That said, I do not understand your data set-up.
It is not clear what an observation is.
Nick
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Alexis Furuichi
> Does anyone know how to turn labels into values? I have a
> dataset with two variables that refer to countries that I
> want to match, but they are coded differently. So, the data
> set has two numeric variables:
>
> id country nation
> 1 20 15
> 2 23 11
> 3 14 20
>
> where the labels are defined differently for the values in
> "country" and "nation" -
>
> id country nation
> 1 Israel Iran
> 2 Iran Israel
> 3 Turkey Turkey
>
> if the labels can be fixed into the variables I can compare
> them, but as they are, I can not, because the same countries
> have different values. The codes do not seem to be in any
> particular order either.
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