I added "modify"
label define status 0 "rural", modify
is what I did (sorry). But
ta status
returns
0
1 urban
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rike,
>
> What do you mean by "it doesn't add a label for 0"? Stata can assign
> labels to zeros. Did you forget the -modify- option?
>
> . sysuse auto
> . d foreign
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> foreign byte %8.0g origin Car type
>
> . lab list origin
> origin:
> 0 Domestic
> 1 Foreign
>
> . lab def origin 0 "Rural", modify
> . lab list origin
> origin:
> 0 Rural
> 1 Foreign
>
> . tab foreign
> Car type | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Rural | 52 70.27 70.27
> Foreign | 22 29.73 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 74 100.00
>
> Friedrich
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Rike <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the problem lies in the label. The variable "status"" takes 0
>> for rural and 1 for urban, but I'm not able to assign a label to 0
>> (and "urban" is already assigned to 1). I ran
>>
>> la def status 0 "rural"
>>
>> it doesn't add a label for 0 which is odd...
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> No quotes are included in what you report here as typed.
>>>
>>> So, check out in turn
>>>
>>> 1. Any unmatched quotes in the variable label of -status-.
>>>
>>> 2. Any unmatched quotes in the value labels of -status- (if any).
>>>
>>> 3. Any unmatched quotes in the values of -status- (if it is a string
>>> variable).
>>>
>>> 4. Repeat 1 for your other variables.
>>>
>>> My guess is #1.
>>>
>>> Then remove the unmatched quote _or_ insert a matching quote and reissue
>>> the -graph- command.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> Rike
>>>
>>> I tried it without the space (I mistakenly put it back there when I
>>> copied the code for the list) but I get the same error. Any other
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>> Kieran McCaul
>>>
>>>> You have a space in the -by- option.
>>>> -by (status)- should be -by(status)-
>>>
>>> Rike
>>>
>>>> I'm running the following code:
>>>>
>>>> twoway scatter ratio month, by(status) c(l) xlabel(1(1)12)
>>>>
>>>> twoway scatter ratio1 ratio2 ratio3 ratio4 month, by (status)
>>>> connect(l l l l) xlabel(1(1)12)
>>>>
>>>> where status is a dummy. Stata returns an r(198) error, and it
>>>> happened when I added the by-option. I would also like to use
>>>> by(status, total) later on. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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