Add lable to binary variable

[Arthur Pandart]

Hello.

I have a binary variable "size" : 1 means it's small, 0 means it's large. But in my data base, it's written : 0 or 1.
I would like to add a label to 0 and 1. So that in my data, it will be "small" in place of 1. How can I do it ?

Thank you.

[Marcelo Dolabella]

Do you want to replace the dummy with a string variable?
if yes this will do:

gen size1 ="small" if size==1
replace size1 ="large" if size==0
drop size
rename size1 size

[Rich Goldstein]

you can add value labels to your numeric variable using the label command; there are two steps: "label define" and "label values"; see

help label

[daniel klein]

label define sizelbl 0 "large" 1 "small"
label values size sizelbl

A better name for that variable would be

rename size small

Best
Daniel