Two very useful programmes are labutil and renvars. Examples of what can be done with these are reversing the labelling on a variable with a single command (e.g. 1=Excellent to 5=Excellent), and renaming common parts of multiple variables at the same time.
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I am not familiar with these. I use a Stata command renpfix
Say you create a set of country dummies
xi i.countryid
Stata generates a set of nasty sounding dummies
_Icountryid_1 etc
renpfix _Icountryid_ country
will rename , replacing the "stub" "_Icountryid_" with "country"
Thanks for mentioning this one Kevin.
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