st: RE: Variable labels with proportion

[Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu>]

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
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
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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