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Re: st: Generating labels


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Generating labels
Date   Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:28:43 +0100

Sounds as if you mean _value labels_. -search labmask- and see if it
does what you want. You need to download it before you can use it.

Nick
[email protected]


On 27 August 2013 19:22, Carlos Valencia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new on stata
>
> I would like to add lables to some variables (or generate a new text
> variable), which have the same code as in the example , but are in
> fact, different, as in the example: The main city of the state
> "Antioquia" coded by "1" is Medellin, and the main city of the state
> "Cundinam" is 1 as well.
>
> YEAR MONTH SEX STATE       MUNICIP MUNICIP2
> 1996   11           0     Antioquia  1             Medellin
> 1988   7             1     Cundinam 1             Bogota
> 1982   4             1     Bolivar      1             ...
>
> Since there are many cities belonging to some municipalities using the
> same value, how can I handle this, without changing all the cities
> manually?
>
> Thanks by your help
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