STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
more information to be displayed, but the display has
paused so that you can view the first part of the output.
You will need to click on –more– several times to see the
complete output. To continue to the next screen, click the
or you can click on the –more– or you could
also click on the green button on the tool bar - . This
button only shows on the icon bar if there is more output
to be seen in the Results window.
If you wish not have the output displayed one screen at a
time, you can turn this feature off. The command is:
You can include it at the beginning of the do-file so that
when you want to run the do-file another time, –more–
will be turned off.
If you want to stop the listing from completing, you can
click on the .
The label list command You can select specific variables to only look at those
labels. From the menus:
1. From the Data menu select Data utilities / Label
utilities
2. Select List value labels
3. Select district and vil, click on and switch to
the do-file editor to paste the command. Switch
back to the dialog box and click on Ok.
The listing shows you what values are assigned to a label.
Note: A label name can be assigned to multiple variables.
You can create a label name for 1=yes 2=no and assign
that label name to several different variables.
In the Command window you can also type
The codebook command To document all the variables including those that do not
have value labels, another command is available:
1. From the Data menu select Describe data...
2. Select Describe data contents (codebook).
Click on to copy the command and switch to
the do-file to paste the command. Switch back to
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set more off
label list district vil