RE: st: label wide format variables with same label for different years

[<I.Roland@lse.ac.uk>]

Thank you! For some reasons I do not want to bother you with, I need
this data to be in wide format.

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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 18 June 2013 11:58
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: label wide format variables with same label for
different years

This seems most unlikely to be a good idea, as many variables in graphs
and tables would now be labelled identically despite different meanings.
The more general problem is that this data structure (I won't sign up to
the word "format" here) is poor for the majority of panel or
longitudinal problems. A -reshape- is strongly advisable.

I am reluctant to hand you a loaded gun, but what you want is

foreach v of var income_* {
      label var `v' "income"
}

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 18 June 2013 11:52,  <I.Roland@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> My data is in wide format and I would like to give the same label to
several variables in different years.
>
> Example:
>
> income_2013       income_2012
> 10                             8
>
> I want to label both income_2013 and income_2012 as "income". Since I 
> have many years, I am looking for a way of doing this with one command

> line instead of
>
> label variable income_2013 "income"
> label variable income_2012 "income"
>
> I intuitively tried
>
> label variable income_* "income" but this does not work, and I could
not find an answer online.
>
> Thank you for your help with this!
> Isa
>
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