Command to find how variables are coded?

[Beenish Amir]

In my data set, variable gender is coded as 0 and 1. Can anyone tell me the command to see whether female is coded as 0 or 1?
Thanks in advance.

[Igor Paploski]

There might be a better way, but I just

tab var
tab var, nolabel

and see what matches what. Additionally, if you go to Data -> Variables Manager you can access all your labels, where you can see to which values each label matches to.

[Beenish Amir]

I tried, but it didn't work

[Mauricio Caceres]

label list `:value label var'

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

The command that gets you there in one step is -codebook-. Here is an example.

set obs 2
gen byte gender = _n
label define cgender 1 "Male" 2 "Female"
label values gender cgender

codebook gender

And the abbreviated output of -codebook gender- shows:

            tabulation:  Freq.   Numeric  Label
                             1         1  Male
                             1         2  Female

Notice the direct comparison between the numeric coding and associated labels. If nothing were listed in the Label column, it would mean your numeric variable for gender is missing value labels and you will need to go back to the data source to figure out what 0 and 1 mean.

[Igor Paploski]

I tried, but it didn't work

Please explain what's happening. Show your database using dataex - read the FAQ.

If your variable is coded as 0 and 1 and the variable is not labeled, then this is not something Stata can help you - check with who entered the database, they should know how they coded male and female.

[Beenish Amir]

Okay, thank you so much

[Marcos Almeida]

Also,

help codebook