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st: RE: Use varlabel in expressions


From   "Trelle Sven" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Use varlabel in expressions
Date   Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:47:17 +0100

One possibility that should work (I acknowledge that I haven't tested it but it should give you the direction)
Sven

* ** code starts ** *
foreach var of varlist * {
 	local label: var label `var'
	local match = substr("`label'",1,3)
	if "`match'"=="na-" {
		drop `var'
	}
}
* ** code ends ** *



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcelo Lafleur
Sent: Freitag, 23. März 2012 19:54
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Use varlabel in expressions

I've had not luck with this and all references in this list point to use of value labels. 

My question is simple: How, if possible, to drop variables based on a prefix in their varlabels?

Examples:

... des  mv218 mv225 mv245 mv246

variable name       value label      variable label
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mv218                                           number of living children
mv225                  mv225            na-current pregnancy wanted
mv245                                           women fathered children 
with
mv246                   mv246           na-married to mother when first 
child was born

(I edited the output a bit)


I want to drop mv225 and mv246 by testing that the variable label starts with "na-"

Having hundreds of variables in each dataset, it would be impractical to do by hand.

Any ideas?

Marcelo
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