Re: st: an ordinary two-way table

["Ben Jann" <ben.jann@gmail.com>]

Austin wrote:
> ... it seems to me that
> -tabulate- could have an option -label- (much like option -missing-)
> that would make sure that every category of a numeric variable that
> has a value label defined for it would be included in the table.  Then
> many of these odd tables could be constructed in 2 or 3 easy steps.  I
> can envision an easy ado-based solution not using Mata, but using
> -label save- and -file read- loops to read off the 4th "word" of the
> do-file that results from -label save-.
Have a look at -labelsof- (type -ssc describe labelsof-). It does
exactly what you are thinking of. Furthermore, the -fre- command has
an option to include all labeled values in the table (one-way tables
only).

. ssc describe labelsof
. ssc describe fre

ben
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