Name variable

[Ana Vasconcelos]

Hello,

I have a dataset with a variable called "Country". I would like to know the code to know the name of the countries included in this variable?
Thank you in advance.

[William Lisowski]

Perhaps the ISO Standard 3166 country codes described on this Wikipedia page are what you are seeing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._country_codes

[Ana Vasconcelos]

I would like to know the code that I need to use to have the names of the countries included in the dataset. The variable "countries" includes several countries..
Thank you

[Joseph Coveney]

tabulate countries

or

contract countries, freq(count)
list, noobs separator(0)

[William Lisowski]

I am sorry. Without your having showed us an example of your data, I assumed your variable "Country" has "country codes" like "BEL" and you were looking to convert those to country names like "Belgium". Apparently that is not what you want. What you want is the "Stata code" to tell you what values Country takes in your dataset.

If you want to know all the values that a variable - suppose its name is "Country" but it could be anything - has in your dataset, then the command

tabulate Country, missing

will tell you all the values for the variable, and as a bonus tell you how many observations each appears in, and whether any observations have missing values for the variable.

Added in edit: the answer to this question given when you asked it in September 2016 will also work.

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...n-a-panel-data

[Ana Vasconcelos]

It worked with "tabulate". Thank you!