Stata Translate

[Euslaner]

Sorry if this is simple, but I have a data set in German (attached). I want to translate variable names and labels from English to German, but when I type I get:

. label language en
language en not defined
r(111);

. label language German
language German not defined
r(111);

or
translate d:\downloads\zick.dta,replace
invalid file specification
r(198);

Any help would be appreciated

Ric Uslaner

[Nick Cox]

Bad news: you need to define labels in any different language not used in the data. Stata as such will not translate. The latter command isn’t for binary data files.