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Re: st: Assign variable labels after importing data from Microsoft Excel
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Assign variable labels after importing data from Microsoft Excel
Date
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:43:58 -0500
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clear
input str15 (id time var1 var2 var3)
label_id label_time label_var1 label_var2 label_var3
1 1960 123 1234 a34
end
**
foreach x of varlist * {
label var `x' `"`=`x'[1]'"'
}
drop in 1
foreach x of varlist * {
cap destring `x', replace
}
desc
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- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
+979.845.6754
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Iulian Ihnatov wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> I need to import a Microsoft Excel sheet content (panel data) in Stata 12 that looks as follows:
> id time var1 var2 var3 .....
> label_id label_time label_var1 label_var2 label_var3 ...
> 1 1960 123 1234 234
> ...
>
> My problem is to use the values of the second row as value labels for the variable names in the first row. The - import excel - part is the easy one. I looked through the variable label management modules on the SSC archive and could't find an appropriate package to solve my problem. Thus, any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> --
> Iulian IHNATOV
> --------------------------
> Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
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