Re: st: Lost value labels

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Wed, 17/11/10, Lidia Panico wrote:
> After some manipulation of my dataset (mostly merging in
> new variables from other stata 
> files as well as from an excel file), I seem to have lost
> all my value labels. The variable labels 
> are still there. Any clue as to why this might have
> happened and, more importantly, if there's 
> any way to fix it other than by trying to recover an older
> version of my dataset?

Type in Stata -label list- to get a list of labels that are
still in memory. If it returns labels, you can use -label value-
to attach the appropriate value labels to the appropriate 
variables, otherwise you'll just have to go back to the original 
data. 

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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