Re: st: RE: Variable labels with proportion

[Geoff Dougherty <geoffdougherty@gmail.com>]

Joe, 

Thanks for the input. 

I mentioned svy lest someone suggest I try tab, or something else that doesn't play nicely with svy but maintains the labels. 

It looks like I'll be able to get there by saving the svy: prop output to a dataset with parmest and then merging with a table of variable names/labels. I can then delete the rows that aren't "Yes", and calculate a new "No" variable as 1-yes. 


Best, 
Geoff Dougherty
MPH candidate '14, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
Health rankings data consultant, US News & World Report


On Nov 21, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Joe Canner wrote:

> Geoff,
> 
> That is not a problem with -svy:- it appears to be a problem (feature?) with -proportion-, since it doesn't display variable labels when you don't use -svy- either.  The same is true, for example, with -total-.  In contrast, -tabulate- displays variable labels by default with or without -svy-.  This is probably something to report/suggest to Stata for a future update/version.
> 
> I think you're out of luck on the second question.  The only option I am aware of is recoding the variable to make it actually binary.
> 
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Dougherty
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:01 PM
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> Subject: st: Variable labels with proportion
> 
> Hi, all. I am using svy: proportion to calculate percentages for a long list of variables. I am wondering if there's a way to have the output display the variable labels rather than variable names. I saw an indication in an old listserv post that this may not be possible, so if anyone has an idea for a workaround, that would be great. 
> 
> Also, I'm wrestling with creating a value label that will display categorical variables as binary: 
> 
> #delimit ;
> label define tobinary
>   1    "Yes"
>   2    "No"
>   7    "No"
>   8    "No"
>   9    "No"
>   ; 
> 
> However, values 2-9 are showing up as individual levels in the output. Any idea how to remedy this without recoding a long list of variables?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoff Dougherty
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