Re: st: For Loop Using Variable Labels

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

OK. Then I guess you should look at

help extended_fcn

to see how to look up value labels given values.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 24 June 2013 23:53, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I do mean value label. Apologies for confusing terminology.
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You say
>>
>> "I'd like to use
>> the "levelsof" command on the variable label instead of the variable
>> values, since the label for the lowest category will always be in the
>> dataset, but there may not be a variable value for each response
>> category"
>>
>> When you say _variable label_ do you mean _value label_ ? .
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 24 June 2013 23:40, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Let's say I wanted to write to a file the number of responses to a
>>> variety of survey questions with different categories. I'll use the
>>> voter dataset to illustrate what I want to do.
>>>
>>> **********************
>>> *Stata Code*
>>>
>>> cd C:/PATH/Data/
>>> sysuse voter, clear
>>> keep candidat-inc
>>> drop if inc == 1  /*Drop if inc variable is equal to 1 (< $15k)*/
>>>
>>> file open mefile using ../Data/Test.txt, write replace
>>> file write mefile "Variable" _tab "Value" _tab "Number" _tab "Total" _tab _n
>>>
>>> foreach v of varlist candidat-inc{ /*For each variable in the dataset:*/
>>>    levelsof `v', local(temp) /*Store variable values in a local macros.*/
>>>
>>>    foreach t of local temp{ /*For each value of the variable:*/
>>>       file write mefile "`v'" _tab /*Write variable name to file,*/
>>>       file write mefile "`t'" _tab /*Write question response to file,*/
>>>       summarize `v' if `v' == `t'
>>>       file write mefile "`r(N)'" _tab /*Write value to file,*/
>>>    }
>>>    summarize `v'
>>>    file write mefile "`r(N)'" _tab _n /*Write total number of
>>> responses to the question (variable) to file.*/
>>> }
>>>
>>> file close mefile
>>> **********************
>>>
>>> So I dropped the lowest income category from the dataset (let's assume
>>> there were no responses in that particular category). I'd like to use
>>> the "levelsof" command on the variable label instead of the variable
>>> values, since the label for the lowest category will always be in the
>>> dataset, but there may not be a variable value for each response
>>> category. How would one do that?
>>>
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