Austin is pointing out that -labmask- solves this problem already.
For more information and discussion, see e.g. this posting last month
<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg01049.html>
-- and the links embedded in it.
Nick
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Austin Nichols
Eric A. Booth <[email protected]> :
findit labmask
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Eric A. Booth <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I am trying to define labels for a numeric variable (countynumber)
using an
> existing string variable (county) so that the the countynumber will
take on
> a value label equal to the county for that same row.
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