VALLABSAVE: Stata module to save and load label-only Stata datasets

Roger Newson

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: The vallabsave package contains 2 modules, vallabsave and vallabload. vallabsave saves a list of value labels (defaulting to all value labels in the current dataset) to a label-only Stata dataset in a disk file, containing no observations and no variables. vallabload appends a label-only Stata dataset in a disk file to the Stata dataset currently in memory, after checking that the Stata dataset in the disk file is a label-only Stata dataset. Label-only Stata datasets are a sensible way of storing value labels in a disk file, if the labels may have text values that cannot be enclosed in compound quotes. Such labels cannot be stored using label save, or generated using label define, but they may be generated using encode, or usng the SSC packages sencode and vallabdef.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 16
Keywords: labels; value labels; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01-18, Revised 2020-08-11
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install vallabsave". 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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