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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
The label values commands
Now that the label has been defined, we can assign this
label to the variable we created with the 4 categories.
8. Click on Data, then
Data utilities then
Label utilities then
Assign value label to variables.
The Label values – Assign value label to a variable
dialog box opens. The default choice is to attach
a value label to variables.
9. In the Variables: box select age_gp.
This is the variable that we want to attach a
label to.
10. In the Value label box, select “age_gp”.
11. Click on the copy button, switch to the do-file
editor, paste the command, switch back and click
on the Ok button.
The Stata command is:
label values age_gp age_gp
The steps to label a variable and define value labels has
been made much easier in this version of Stata.
Second method: Another method we can use is to generate the new variable,
assign the new values and assign the labels for the values in
one step:
1. Select Create or change variables from the
Data menu
2. Select Other variable transformation
commands
3. Select Recode categorical variable
4. In the “Main” tab, select ca3 in the Variables box.
5. In the Required box, specify the range you want
and the new value to be assigned as well as the
label for that new value, e.g.
(0/10 = 1 “0 to 10")
6. In the Optional boxes continue to specify the ranges
and value to be assigned, e.g.
(10.001/19 = 2 “11 to 19")
(19.001/60 = 3 “20 to 60")
(60.001/max = 4 “61 and older”)
Note: examples on how to specify the
value can be see if you click on the
“Examples” button.
7. Click on the “Options” tab. Click on the radio
button next to “Generate new variables”.
8. In the box, type the name of the new variable:
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