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[Sourav Kumar]

So I have data in one variable 'months' '=as blue coded int labeled as string and one variable as float, I want to plot them but I want the x axis as the strings (months name).
month unemployment_rate
january .0351568
february .0351279
march .0338469
april .0294022
may .0316716
june .035098
july .0345049

please help

[Nick Cox]

Please read #12 in the FAQ https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#stata for advice on showing data examples. We can't see how the value labels are defined. Here is one take from what you have posted.

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
clear
input str8 month double unemployment
"january"  .0351568
"february" .0351279
"march"    .0338469
"april"    .0294022
"may"      .0316716
"june"      .035098
"july"     .0345049
end

gen t  = _n

tokenize "`c(Months)'"

forval m = 1/12 {
   label def months `m' "``m''", add
}

label val t months

twoway connected unemployment t , xla(1/7, valuelabels) xtitle("")