How to add value label to default missing values?

[Sennett Leung]

Hi there,

Sorry for a really beginner question. I am trying to add value labels to organise my data better, but I can't seem to value label the default missing values on Stata which is seen as '.'. I would like to assign a value, i.e. "0 = '.'". Is there any work around for labelling the dot?

I tried recoding the missing values as 99 but I still wasn't able to add value labels to show, i.e. 0 = '99'

Please advise, thanks so much.

[Joseph Coveney]

Why don't you just convert the default system missing value to a convenient extended missing, say, .a? The latter can be labeled.

[Sennett Leung]

Ah sure, thank you very much!