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If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.įor technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. You can help adding them by using this form. We have no bibliographic references for this item. To see which labels are currently defined in Stata and their content you can use the label list command (helpful summary information is stored in the return values of label list and label dir as well). It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about. Deleting all variables that have a value label and saving the dataset will ensure that the value label is removed from the. This allows to link your profile to this item. It includes add in other words, you can modify existing labels and at the same time add new ones. modify has to be used if existing labels are to be changed. label define mstatus 0 'cohabiting' 2 'divorced' 3 'widowed', modify. add can be used to label values that have no label attached. If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. label define mstatus 2 'divorced' 3 'widowed', add.

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When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s457166. You can help correct errors and omissions. To see which labels are currently defined in Stata and their content you can use the label list command (helpful summary information is stored in the return values of label list and label dir as well).All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. Deleting all variables that have a value label and saving the dataset will ensure that the value label is removed from the.

Stata stores value labels independently from the variables, so it’s important to manage value labels separately from variables as they can contain PII. Because this is done automatically based on alphabetical order, if you are trying to make value labels match some existing assignment, you may need to recode or label them manually. encode will automatically convert the string variable into a numeric variable and assign the numbers 1 – x (where x is the number of unique answer choices) to the alphabetized list of the answer choices (ordered 0-9, followed by a-z). The quickest way to change string variables to numeric variables with value labels is the encode command.

many programs will use information on whether a variable has value labels in order to identify it as a categorical variable, as opposed to a continuous numeric variable.

it provides information to the analyst that will reduce mistakes made in coding or analyzing data.

It is very important to label values for two reasons: See help label for how to do this in Stata. It is helpful to preserve the extra information the strings capture by using “value labels.” A value label such as gender would assign “female” to 0 and “male” to 1 and display female and male to the analyst. When doing calculations, however, you’ll need these variables to be numeric (in the float or long format) – if they are not already imported this way. For instance, you may see “male” and “female” displayed as possible responses to the variable gender. For categorical variables the raw data will often show the string values for the selected response.