Retrieve the numeric value of a label

[Giuseppe Polito]

I have a string variable nation2 distributed as follows:

. tab nation2, m

    nation2 |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
            |     51,292       16.10       16.10
      OTHER |    212,447       66.68       82.78
         SE |     54,854       17.22      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |    318,593      100.00

Now I encode it in a numeric variable to be used in a regression model

encode nation2, gen(nation_encoded)

. tab nation_encoded, nolab m

nation_enco |
        ded |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |    212,447       66.68       66.68
          2 |     54,854       17.22       83.90
          . |     51,292       16.10      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |    318,593      100.00

Now I want to count the instances of nation_encoded=="OTHER".

If I do

. count if nation_encoded=="OTHER"
type mismatch

I have to do

.  count if nation_encoded==1
  212,447

How can I use the command with the label, not with the numeric value?

Is there something like

count if nation_encoded==nation_encoded.labels.OTHER

?

[Ali Atia]

count if nation_encoded=="OTHER":nation_encoded

Where the second use of nation_encoded is the name of the value label, automatically defined as nation_encoded when you use -encode-.