Re: st: adding brief description to a database

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

If you type, in Stata,

help label

then you will find the -label data- command, which creates a label for 
the current dataset in memory. If you save this current dataset, and 
then use it in another Stata session, then the dataset will still be 
labelled.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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On 05/07/2012 15:32, Paolo Bonaiuti wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this might be a trivial question. If so, sorry, but I didn't manage to
> find its answer on stata.com.
> Does anybody knon how to add a brief description to a database?
>
>
> I mean: when you type:
> . sysuse auto,clear
>
> you have as output:
>   (1978 Automobile Data)
>
>
> how can I add a similar description to my database?
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo
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