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

[daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>]

There is one thing I would like to point out in José Maria's code.

Note that you cannot label system missing values (ie. .). Labels may
only be associated with extended missing values (i.e. .a, .b, ...,
.z). Thus, you should code

label define labelname 0 "male" 1 "female" .a "missing"

rather than

label define labelname 0 "male" 1 "female" . "missing"

if you want your missing values to be labeled.

Best
Daniel

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José Maria wrote

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

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