--- fran brittan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Var2 is numerical data, not string. I attached labels to the values
> using this command:
>
> label def var2 1 "value1" etc.
>
> If I type "label list", it lists the values as I defined them.
> If I just tabulate it, it shows the numerical values. I don't want to
> change the variable to string.
What you need to type next is:
label value var2 var2
-label define- just defines the label but does not attach it to a
variable. This can be useful when you have many question with the same
value labels (e.g. 1 "strongly agree", 2 "agree", 3 "neutral", etc). In
that case you have to define the labels only once, and you can apply it
to a whole set of variables.
-- Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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