Stata Metadata

Stata exposes a rich API for querying internal metadata.

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  1. Stata Metadata
    1. Labels
    2. Descriptives

Labels

Variable and value labels are primarily manipulated by the `-label-` command. 

. label variable foo "yes or no?"

. label define yesno 1 "Yes" 0 "No"

. label values foo yesno

. label list yesno
yesno:
           0 No
           1 Yes

Numeric values can be quickly prepended to value labels using the -numlabel- command. 

numlabel foo, add mask("#. ")

To access or store the text of a variable label, try: 

local varlab_foo: variable label foo

To manipulate value labels, try: 

local vallab_foo: value label foo
local vallab_foo_1: label `vallab_foo' 1, strict

Descriptives

display _N    // number of cases
display c(k)  // number of variables

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Stata/Metadata (last edited 2025-10-24 15:58:53 by DominicRicottone)