Extending the label commands (continued)

Daniel Klein
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Daniel Klein: INCHER - Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung

German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2019 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: Four years ago, I first suggested extending Stata's label commands to manipulate variable labels and value labels more systematically. By now, I have refined my earlier approach and released a new suite of commands, elabel, that facilitate these everyday data management tasks. In contrast to most existing community-contributed commands to manipulate labels, elabel does not focus on solving specific problems. Combined with any of Stata's label commands, it addresses any problem related to variable and value labels. elabel accepts wildcard characters in value label names, allows referring to value labels via variable names, selects subsets of integer to text mappings, and applies any of Stata's functions to define new or modify existing labels. I demonstrate these features drawing on various examples and show how to write new ado-files to further extend the elabel commands.

Date: 2019-07-10
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