Date:         Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:23:38 -0500
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From:         David Wright <coxspss@cox.net>
Subject:      auto creating labels
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Is there a way in syntax to create value labels by associating value indicators from one variable to labels in another?

For example, say I have two variables, V1 is the numeric code & V2 is the alpha value label.

V1   V2
23   biology
47   chemistry
13   anthropology

It would be nice to have syntax that would help produce:

val lab
  23 'biology'
  47 'chemistry'
  13 'anthropology'

Perhaps if there was a way to push the above to output, don't know, I suspect I could aggregate on V1 in an output file & cut/paste with some inserts for formatting.  Any ideas on automating this one?

Thanks in advance,

David

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