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--- 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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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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Lidia Panico
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Dept. Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
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Thank you Maarten.</span></font>
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Unfortunately -label list- doesn't return anything, so I think you are right, I will have to go back
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Best wishes, Lidia</span></font>
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