Re: st: output variables and labels to excel

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You could do something like this assuming that you don't have more
variables than observations.

gen varname = ""
gen varlabel = ""
local i = 1
quietly foreach v of var * {
     replace varname = "`v'" in `i'
     replace varlabel = "`: var label `v''" in `i'
     local ++i
}

and then export those two variables. But Roger Newson's  -descsave- is
much more versatile and elaborate. -search descsave- for locations.



Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 19 August 2013 18:39, Caroline Wilson <wilson_cj@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Stata,
>
> I'm trying to output the names of all variables in my Stata dataset and their labels to an excel file. For example, I would like to end product to look like this:
>
> Variable name     Variable label
> gender            Patient gender
> DOB               Date of birth
> Race              Patient race
> etc.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? I tried codebook but it gave me a lot more information than I needed, and I also had formatting problems when copying and pasting the output into Excel.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help!
> Caroline
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