Hi Jorge,
Yes. Assuming you have two textfiles origin and sex as follows:
---Beginning origin.txt---
0 `"Domestic"'
1 `"Foreign"'
---End origin.txt---
---Beginning sex.txt---
1 `"Female"'
2 `"Male"'
---End sex.txt---
You could create the value labels e.g. like that:
--- Beginning example.do---
version 11.0
file open first using origin.txt, r t
file read first line
while r(eof)==0 {
label define origin `line', modify
file read first line
}
file close first
file open second using sex.txt, r t
file read second line
while r(eof)==0 {
label define sex `line', modify
file read second line
}
file close second
label list
exit
---End example.do---
You can find more detailed information via "help file" and in particular
"help file##2.2".
Also as long as your labels don't contain blanks it doesn't matter if
they are in quotes or not. Otherwise you'll have to find a work-around.
Cheers,
Sven-Oliver
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 18:27 -0500, Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez wrote:
> Dear Statalist:
>
> I have many textfiles that contain value label information, in the
> following format:
>
> 1 labelfor1
> 2 labelfor2
> ...
>
> Is it possible to import this information to Stata and assign it to
> variables in a dataset? I've had bad luck searching ...
>
> Thank you
>
> _______________________
> Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
>
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