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Re: st: re-sorting display order after -encode-
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Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
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Re: st: re-sorting display order after -encode-
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Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:09:37 -0700
Thanks Nick!
Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch
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On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:26 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> You evidently just used the default produced by -encode- so that
> incoming strings were labelled according to their alphanumeric order.
> Thus values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 correspond to strings "0-200" ...
> "501-1,000". -encode- has no notion of looking inside the strings to
> discern a meaning and thus a natural order, any more than than it can
> sort "average" "bad" "good" into the correct order. You need to define
> labels in advance before you use -encode- or fix the problem using
> -recode- or some equivalent.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 10 March 2014 03:01, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
>
>> I have used -encode- to add value labels from string variable, which are a series of numerical ranges stored as text.
>>
>> -codebook- shows the frequency data, and Label values, were correct.
>> Freq. Numeric Label
>> 121 1 0-20
>> 16 2 1,001+
>> 36 3 101-500
>> 81 4 21-100
>> 8 5 501-1,000
>>
>> However, I wish to display them using -tab- so that the rows are sorted on the value label.
>> The -encode- help file does not suggest this is possible. Is there a workaround?
>>
>> What I want to achieve is -tab- showing this:
>> Label Freq
>> 0-20 121
>> 21-100 81
>> 101-500 36
>> 501-1,000 8
>> 1,001+ 16
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