Re: st: My stata won't -tab- with my value labels - why?

[José Maria Pacheco de Souza <jmpsouza@usp.br>]

Em 09/09/2011 18:56, Brandon Olszewski escreveu:
> Hi all:
> I'm frustrated because I can't get -tab- output with the value labels,
> but instead, only their numeric codes. Here's a simplified example...
> Let's say I've got the var<female>  coded as 0 and 1.
> ..
> label define 0 "male" 1 "female"
> tab fem, sort mis
>
> ...produces -tab- output that doesn't include the labels "male" and
> "female", but instead, 0&  1. I want a labeled table of frequencies
> (sorted, and showing missing observations, in this case) so that I
> don't have to manually insert the labels.
> Clearly with this example it doesn't matter too much. But with the
> dataset I've got, it is consequential.
> This should be simple. Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing
> wrong, and how to fix it?
> Thanks,
> Brandon

> Dear Brandon:
I think that is missing the name of the label and, after label define 
and before tab fem, the command to "glue" the label in  your variable:

label define labelname 0 "male" 1 "female" . "missing"
label values female labelname
tab fem, sort mis

Regards,
josé maria



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