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| From | daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Labelling of categorical variables in regression outputs |
| Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:54:19 +0200 |
Amal, -xi- is the predecessor of Stata's factor variable notation introduced in Stata 11. The problem here is, that neither -xi- nor factor variables may have labels attached (yet). You need to work around this, creating the dummies yourself. Here is one way, using Nick Cox's -labvarch-, part of his -labutil- package, available from SSC (type -ssc inst labutil-). ta motherland ,g(moth_) labvarch moth_* ,aft(==) regress wt_gain moth_* malder if multibirth==2 This approach assumes there are no other variables in your dataset having names that begin with moth_. Best Daniel -- [...] I labelled my exposure variable as follows: label variable motherland "mother's country of birth" label define motherland 1 "Sweden" 2 "Western Europe + NA" 3 "Finland" 4 "Eastern Europe" 5 "Poland" 6 "F. Yugoslavia" 7 "Arab league" 8 "Iraq" 9 "Lebanon" 10 "Somalia" 11 "Syria" 12 "Turkey" 13 "Iran" 14 "South Asia" 15 "Ethiopia+Eritrea" 16 "East asia" 17 "Latin America" 18 "Chile" 19 "Africa" label values motherland motherland [...] eststo xi: regress wt_gain i.motherland malder if multibirth==2 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/