Re: st: AW: Displaying labeled values of variables

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

Thank you so much for your help!

Martin Weiss wrote:
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> While you are at it, you might also want to take note of
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0009 on a related
> problem.
>
> On your other question, -help labelbook- may be useful.
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Miranda Kim
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. August 2009 09:40
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: st: Displaying labeled values of variables
>
> A bit of a basic question...
> say gender is a 0/1 (binary) variable with label sexlab where 0 = "Male" 
> and 1 = "Female"
> if I want to display this variable for observation i, I type:
> di gender[i]
> this will then display a 0 or 1
> How could I change this to display it's 'labeled' value (i.e. "Male" or 
> "Female")
> also, how can I define a new string variable that contains the 'labeled' 
> values of gender?
> Thanks a lot for your help.
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