Ziad,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Ziad wrote:

Dear EpiData lister i am preparing my dataset now in EpiData, with aim to analyse in STATA. meant to ask how to transfer the labels into STATA?

Thank you in advance and best regards ziad _______________________________________________

the export (to Stata) command in EpiData will transfer labels defined in EpiData as well - both variable labels and value labels. The only aber dabei is: in Stata, the variable labels might not be shown with the correct display format. Example: EpiData number variables of length 1 will be formatted with Stata's %1.0f display format, even though they might have a value label attached. This means that only the first character of the value label will be shown, when listing the data in Stata.

To fix this: reset to the default display format in Stata:

-format <varlist> %8.0g-

- Jesper K. Hansen Data manager, Odense University Hospital