Relabeling Values

[Cassidy Hale]

This is my first time using Stata without help from a professor, and I am struggling to relabel my values in one of my tables. I need to label my female and male values as '0' and my trans-female and trans-male values as '1'. I have included screenshots of my do-file and the outcome that I get. I have tried multiple ways of relabeling and consistently get an invalid syntax error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Marcos Almeida]

The command - encode - has the option - label() - for that matter. You shall - label define - beforehand.

[Yao Zhao]

Hi Cassidy, try this:

label define gender  0   "female" ///
                    0   "male"    ///
                    1   "trans-female"    ///
                    1   "trans-male"

Does this work?

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

The syntax error on your label define command is because value labels assign text to numeric values, not the other way around.

I think you will have better luck by replacing your label define and encode commands with these commands.

label define gender_all 1 "female" 2 "male" 3 "trans-female" 4 "trans-male"
encode candidategender, generate(candidategender_all) label(gender_all)
recode candidategender_all (1 3 = 0 "female") (2 4 = 1 "male"), generate(candidategender_new)

The result will be two new variables: candidategender_all with numeric values for each of the four categories in candidategender, and then candidategender_new which recodes the four values to two values.

[William Lisowski]

Yao Zhao - apparently not.

. label define gender  0   "female" ///
>                     0   "male"    ///
>                     1   "trans-female"    ///
>                     1   "trans-male"

. label list gender
gender:
           0 male
           1 trans-male

[Yao Zhao]

Aha, you're right. Thanks.

[Cassidy Hale]

William Lisowski That worked! Thank you for the help