Strip off label

[ajay pasi]

Hi statalist community,

How to strip off labels (one values) from numeric variable? Such that string only has numbers (no labels)

[ajay pasi]

I get it _strip_labels varlist

[William Lisowski]

The output of help label is where I would begin in looking for advice on dealing with value labels and variable labels. It tells us that

label values varlist .

will do what is desired.

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 automobile data)

. describe rep78 foreign

Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rep78           int     %8.0g                 Repair record 1978
foreign         byte    %8.0g      origin     Car origin

. label values rep78 foreign .

. describe rep78 foreign

Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rep78           int     %8.0g                 Repair record 1978
foreign         byte    %8.0g                 Car origin

.

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 automobile data)

. describe rep78 foreign

Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rep78           int     %8.0g                 Repair record 1978
foreign         byte    %8.0g      origin     Car origin

. _strip_labels rep78 foreign

. describe rep78 foreign

Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rep78           int     %8.0g                 Repair record 1978
foreign         byte    %8.0g                 Car origin

.

[ajay pasi]

Thanks William.