Thanks Nick, it works fine!
I tried to understand what is going on in this program you wrote, but I cannot seem to find out where the variable names and labels are created - I guess I do not know enough of writing programs in Stata. What if I want to create the variable names "demograph_married_male" or label "married, male"?
Cheers, Peter
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:46:57 -0000
> Von: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: RE: Labeling values of variables
> 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
> ==============
>
> 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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