How to write/ display label text instead of number

[Chun Kit Dai]

Hi all,

I want to write some text to a text file that contains the label text, but I keep getting a numeric value back. Grateful to anyone who could help or provide some insights.

A simplified version is:

use my_data
generate id = _n

* label attributes and levels
label define WFHlab 1"Allowed" 2 "Not allowed"
label values WFH WFHlab

foreach obs of numlist 1/`=_N' {
    quietly summarize id if id == `obs'
    local WFH_lab = WFH[r(min)]
    display `WFH_lab'
}

I get the level digit back instead of the label text

Thank you

[alejoforero]

        
 use my_data
generate id = _n  
* label attributes and levels
label define WFHlab 1"Allowed" 2 "Not allowed"
label values WFH WFHlab  
foreach obs of numlist 1/`=_N' {    
      quietly summarize id if id == `obs'    
     local WFH_lab = WFH[r(min)]    
     local f0: label WFHlab `WFHlab'    
     di "`f0'"
}

[Clyde Schechter]

display `"`:label (WFH) `WFH_lab''"'

will display the label assigned to the value of `WFH_lab' in variable WFH.

But you code doesn't make sense to me. -summ id if id == `obs' will necessarily return the value `obs' for the mean, min, and max, 0 for the standard deviation, and some informative value for N. So your second command in the loop is really just assigning the value `obs' to WFH_lab. Did you perhaps mean -summ WFH if id == `obs'- or something like that?