Dear Statalists,

I have a question regarding modifying label values. I have a string variable with label names from one dataset (i.e. country name). This variable will act as ID to merge with other dataset, thus I want to assign particular values based on its name. Encode will not work in my case as the label values won't match the values in the second dataset given they have the same name. However, without making it a numeric variable, I can't define the label value either. I would be very grateful if you can help me with this issue.

Many thanks,
Thanh