DSEARCH: Stata module to find variables with given variable label

Ulrich Kohler

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: dsearch finds variables with given variable label and describes them on the screen. This may be useful in datasets with lots of variables. In such datasets one sometimes remember the variable but not the variable name. In this situation finding the variable name with desearch is easy.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 7.0
Keywords: labels; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-09-06
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install dsearch". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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