LABELDATASYNTAX: Stata module to produce syntax to label variables and values, given a data dictionary

Mark Chatfield

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: labeldatasyntax creates a syntax file to label variables and/or values, given a data dictionary is provided in one of a few specific formats. This automates the creation of multiple lines of syntax starting “label define”, “label values”, and “label variable”. The program will do this if it finds any of the following variables in the data dictionary: variable, description, codeset, value, label

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: label define; label values; label variable; syntax; data management; code-sets; codings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-25, Revised 2018-04-28
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install labeldatasyntax". 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/l/labeldatasyntax.ado program code (text/plain)
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/labeldatasyntax.xlsx documentation (application/x-ms-excel)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/ex1_datadictionary.csv example file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/ex2_datadictionary.csv example file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/ex3File-URL:htt ... /_/codesetinfo_a.csv example file (text/plain)
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/ex3_allvariables_b.csv example file (text/plain)

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