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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
ca3 >60
20. Click on the copy button, switch and paste in the dofile
editor, switch back and click on Ok
The label variable command
The Stata commands created and run are:
generate byte age_gp= 1 if ca3 >=0 & ca3 10 & ca3 19 & ca3 60
(49 real changes made)
Note that the Results window also shows how many
observations were modified after each command was run.
The next step is to verify that the changes were made
correctly. Run the Tabulate command on the new variable.
1. From the menus click on
Statistics..
Summaries, Tables & Tests
Tables
One-way tables
The Tabulate1 - One-way Tables dialog box opens.
2. For the Categorical Variables box, select the
variable age_gp from the drop-down box.
3. Click on the copy button, switch and paste in the dofile
editor, switch back and click on the Ok button.
The Stata command is:
There should be 4 codes in the frequency table—1, 2, 3, and
4. We can use the Data Browser to check to see what
changes were made. Click on the Data Browser button.
Close the window when you are finished.
The values do not have any value labels to define what the
values of 1, 2, 3, and 4 mean. We want to add both a
variable label and give labels to the values in this variable.
To assign a variable label:
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tabulate age_gp