Hi all,

I am trying to tabulate some variables and export the data to latex using esttab (command from SSC). Some variables have very long value labels and this causes the data to go outside the table/outside the page.

I want long variable labels to wrap automatically, but specifying the wrap option is not working. I checked the help for estout and it says " wrap causes long variable labels to be wrapped if space permits and a varwidth() is specified. The wrap option is only useful if several parameter statistics are printed beneath one another and, therefore, white space is available beneath the labels." I have tried specifying varwidth and it did not work. How can this "whitespace" problem be solved from within stata itself?

As you can see for this variable below, the value labels are pretty long.

The code I am using is:

esttab using ****, cell("b(label(Frequency)) pct(fmt (%9.1f) label(Percent)) cumpct(fmt (%9.1f) label(Cumulative))") ///
nonumber noobs width(\hsize) varwidth(12) wrap varlabels(`e(labels)') title("") append

Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input byte dem_acknowl
4
3
4
4
4
4
4
2
3
4
2
4
4
2
2
2
2
4
4
4
2
4
4
3
4
2
end
label values dem_acknowl dem_acknowl
label def dem_acknowl 2 "Written acknowledgement, like a receipt with the date the demand was registered", modify
label def dem_acknowl 3 "Verbal acknowledgement", modify
label def dem_acknowl 4 "No acknowledgement", modify

Thanks for your help!