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| From | Steve Nakoneshny <scnakone@ucalgary.ca> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Verify that all values of a variable are mapped after -label values- |
| Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:56:44 -0600 |
Toby, Won't -tab myvar,m- solve your problem? You will be able to see at a glance if any of your obs are unlabelled. At that, even -codebook myvar- and -labelbook mylabel- would be useful tools to identify any gaps. Steve On 2013-06-20, at 1:48 PM, Toby Robertson wrote: > What is the easiest way to check whether, having applied a value label to a variable... > > label values myvar mylabel > > ...every value of myvar in the dataset is mapped to mylabel? > > I am using Stata 10, creating value labels from lookup files from numeric code variables to string descriptor variables using -labmask- followed by -label save-, and then applying them to the values of the numeric variables in very large datasets. > > The obvious solution might be to merge the string variable itself from the lookup file into the target file (after which I could check the integrity of the merge, use -labmask-, and drop the string variable again) because I want to avoid that because of file size and read time considerations. > > Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the answer offhand! > > Toby > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/