esttab shows _missing_ for row labels

[teckstein]

When I generate an output table using this sequence of commands:
eststo clear
eststo: estpost tab farmerestimate
esttab, cells ("b (fmt(a2)) pct (fmt( %9.1f))") ///
label nomti nonum ///
collabels ("Number" "Percent") ///
title(Table: Farmer Estimate of Plot Sizes)

The rows are labeled _missing_5, 1_missing_0, etc. instead of .5 and 1.0 as they are when you view the results using the regular tab command (tab farmerestimate). As a newbie, I really don't have a clue how to trouble shoot this. Ideas?

[Ronnie Babigumira]

Might this just be about the value labels attached to the variable you are tabulating? see -help label-.

An example

sysuse auto, clear

eststo clear
eststo: estpost tab foreign
esttab, cells ("b (fmt(a2)) pct (fmt( %9.1f))") ///
label nomti nonum ///
collabels ("Number" "Percent") ///
title(Table: Farmer Estimate of Plot Sizes)

** Change the value labels
la define faklbl 1"_missing_5" 0"_missing_0"
la val foreign faklbl

eststo clear
eststo: estpost tab foreign
esttab, cells ("b (fmt(a2)) pct (fmt( %9.1f))") ///
label nomti nonum ///
collabels ("Number" "Percent") ///
title(Table: Farmer Estimate of Plot Sizes)