"codebook, compact" with complete names of variables?

[Frank Rueckert]

Hi all,
I use STATA 17 and I do like the "codebook, compact" command to generate a log-file with informations of the dataset.
I need the complete variablenames but I could not prevent stata to abbreviate the variablenames.

I tried for example:

set linesize 220
set varabbrev off, permanently
preserve
log using "desc.log", replace
novarabbrev codebook, compact
log close
restore

but it produce this lines

Variable Obs Unique Mean Min Max Label
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stid 1180 1180 9.91e+07 9.91e+07 9.91e+07 ID_Nr
bl_sex 1180 2 .5805085 0 1 Sex
bl_age 1180 8 17.26525 14 21 Age / Years
bl_age_det~l 1180 878 17.84245 14.09993 22.03422 exact Age / Years

with this (underlined and bold) abbreviations.


Thanks in advance,
Frank

[William Lisowski]

Unfortunately, novarabbrev does not control variable name abbreviation in the display of variables. It controls whether Stata will interpret abbreviations for variable names: in your data, whether you can use bi_s to mean the variable b1_sex.

It is unfortunate that codebook, compact does not support a fullnames option like that of describe.