One answer is to form a composite by
egen group = group(relation sex), label
and then form your own dummies using -tabulate, gen()-.
But that still leaves rather ugly looking variable labels.
You could in turn fix those with -labvarch- from -labutil- from SSC.
That is all getting rather complicated. Here is a quick hack to
do it in one. Note that
nicelylabelleddummies varname, gen(frog)
will produce the dummies for varname
while
nicelylabelleddummies var1 var2, gen(toad)
will produce the dummies for var1*var2, but it won't produce
produce dummies for var1 and var2 separately.
*! NJC 1.0.0 14 Feb 2008
program nicelylabelleddummies
version 8.2
syntax varlist [if] [in], Generate(str)
marksample touse, strok
qui count if `touse'
if r(N) == 0 error 2000
tempvar group
qui egen `group' = group(`varlist') if `touse', label
su `group', meanonly
local nvars = r(max)
forval i = 1/`nvars' {
capture confirm new variable `generate'`i'
if _rc {
di "`generate'`i' not acceptable as new varname"
exit _rc
}
}
qui tab `group' if `touse', gen(`generate')
forval i = 1/`nvars' {
local label : var label `generate'`i'
local label : subinstr local label "`group'==" ""
label var `generate'`i' `"`label'"'
}
end
Peter Dijkstra
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I like to have sensible value labels of variables, and use
label define relation 0 "single" 1 "married" 2 "divorced"
label define sex 0 "female" 1 "male"
in StataSE 8.2. However, when using
xi i.relation * i.sex
the labels automatically become "relation==1 & sex==1", "relation==2 &
sex==1". How do I obtain labels which say "married male" and "divorced
male"?
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