CHARDEF: Stata module to assign values to a characteristic of a list of variables

Roger Newson

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: chardef is a mass-production version of the char define command. It assigns a list of values to a named characteristic of a list of variables specified by a varlist. If the varlist is not supplied, then chardef assigns the values to the named characteristic for all variables in the dataset currently in the memory. If the named characteristic is not supplied, then the values are assigned to the characteristic varname, used by the list command. If the list of values is shorter than the varlist, then the list of values is extended on the right with copies of the last value. Optionally, a prefix and/or a suffix may be added to the values.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11.0
Keywords: characteristics; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-06, Revised 2012-07-21
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install chardef". 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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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/charundef.ado program code (text/plain)
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