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LABCENSWDI: Stata module to automatically manage datasets obtained from US Census 2000 and World Development Indicators databases

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  • P. Wilner Jeanty

    (The Kinder Institute for Urban Research/Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, Rice University)

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Stata

Abstract

labcenswdi automatically manages datasets obtained from databases providing variable descriptions on the second row. Such databases include, but not limited to, the US Census 2000 Summary Files, the American Community Survey, and the World Development (WDI). While renaming variables with the user's specified variable names, labcenswdi manages the variable descriptions including removing them from the second row to place them into Stata variable labels, reducing their length to 80 characters or less, and saving them to a text file. The new variable names should be supplied in newvarlist (see syntax) if the user elects to replace the default variable names with more meaningful names.

Suggested Citation

  • P. Wilner Jeanty, 2010. "LABCENSWDI: Stata module to automatically manage datasets obtained from US Census 2000 and World Development Indicators databases," Statistical Software Components S457207, Boston College Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s457207
    Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install labcenswdi". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/labcenswdi.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/labcenswdi.hlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/d/dc_dec_2000_sf1_u_data1.txt
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