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35 Stata Rename Variable Label

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In general theres no guarantee that a variable label contains a legal variable name but something like this should help plugging in your own substitute for varlist foreach v of var varlist capture rename v. Also seed rename group for renaming groups of variables.

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You may also interchange variable names.

Stata rename variable label. Stata allows you to label your data file data label to label the variables within your data file variable labels and to label the values for your variables value labels. The problem is that i also need to rename all the value label names to match the new variable names. Foreach v of varlist var1 var2 var3 local x.

Thus rename v v will rename all variables that start with capital v replacing it by a small v. I recommend that you put the original names back as labels in case you want to undo it later. The rules on variable names imply that this wont work if you have in your value label spaces or any punctuation other than underscores a number at the start a string longer than 32 characters.

Var label v nick njcox at durhamacuk van campenhout bjorn i would like. Rename var17 var19 var19 var17 tricks and shortcuts. My illustration is for variable labels.

Lets use a file called autolab that does not have any labels. Some of these methods assume that the values dont have spaces or symbols that stata wouldnt accept in the variable names otherwise assign only the variable labels and then see below how to convert labels into names. Rename changes the name of existing variable old varname to new varname.

The contents of the variable are unchanged. Variable label v rename v x the procedure requires the labels to be valid and unique stata names. Daphna you can use a macro inside a loop like this.

Theres a work around for this using strtoname. Say that we have labor market data for siblings. Currently the variables are names as a1 a2 a3 etc and i need to rename all my variables so that they are listed as v1 v2 v3 etc.

This i can easily do. When generating a new variable method 1 1 using nick coxs labgen. Example 1 rename allows you to change variable names.

The asterisk serves as a wildcard to indicate parts of variables names or entire variable names that will be left unchanged in the renaming process.

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