st: Query on how to re-link variables to their original name tag after mkmat and svmat manipulations

[Marwan Elkhoury <elkhoury.marwan@gmail.com>]

dear Statalist,

Sorry to bother you with this query, but I'm not sure how to solve it  
besides from doing it 'by hand', which is tedious, given that I end up  
with some 16 different tables.

I'm running a model which calculates some world country indices, using  
principal component analysis to calculate the various weights for each  
variable.  In order to do the exercise, I've placed all my variables  
in a big matrix, using 'mkmat' command, together with the 'encoded'  
list of countries related to these variables in order to keep track of  
who's country each measure is related.  when I finish estimating the  
weights, I get back the final result with 'svmat' command.

However, when I try to 'decode' the country list encoded variable, it  
does not return me the original country list but their initial order  
in the country list.  is there a way to get back the names of  
countries and not a number representing their order on the country  
list ?

I'm not sure whether I made myself clear and I apologize for my  
cryptic language;

many thanks in advance for your help and comments

Marwan Elkhoury
elkhoury.marwan@gmail.com
using Stata10
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