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| Data about data. | Stata offers human-readable variable names, variable labels, variable printing formats, and value labels. Stata stores variable labels and value labels in a separate database. Many built-in commands seamlessly pull in metadata from that database, but there are notable exceptions. <<TableOfContents>> ---- == Labels == Variable and value labels are defined using the '''`label`''' command. {{{ label variable foo "yes or no?" label define yesno 1 "Yes" 0 "No" label values foo yesno }}} See [[Stata/Label|here]] for more options. Numeric values can be quickly prepended to value labels using the '''`numlabel`''' command. {{{ numlabel foo, add mask("#. ") }}} |
Stata Metadata
Stata offers human-readable variable names, variable labels, variable printing formats, and value labels.
Stata stores variable labels and value labels in a separate database. Many built-in commands seamlessly pull in metadata from that database, but there are notable exceptions.
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Labels
Variable and value labels are defined using the label command.
label variable foo "yes or no?" label define yesno 1 "Yes" 0 "No" label values foo yesno
See here for more options.
Numeric values can be quickly prepended to value labels using the numlabel command.
numlabel foo, add mask("#. ")
Quick Tips
Stata has a number of interactive tools for examining metadata.
di _N // number of cases di c(k) // number of variables