Re: st: output variables and labels to excel

[Robert Picard <picard@netbox.com>]

It can't get any easier than...

sysuse auto, clear
describe, replace
export excel name varlab using varlabs


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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