st: histogram format

[Jenny Baxter <Jennifer.Baxter@anu.edu.au>]

> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am producing a set of histograms using, for example,
>
> histogram educ, discrete percent addlabel xlabel(1 2 3 9 , valuelabel 
> noticks ) ...
>
>
> This produces a histogram of my variable (education), showing the 
> percentage in each category.
>
> I have two seemingly minor problems
> 1 I want to be able to format the label at the top of the bar - currently 
> it mostly formats to 2 decimal points, but this isn't consistent, and I 
> really only want one decimal point. Can I do this?
> 2 The education variable on the x-axis is plotted as if it is ordinal in 
> that it allows space on the axis for all values between 3 and 9, even 
> though these are not even valid values of the variable. Do I have to 
> recode the variable, or is there another one to make the categories be 
> treated as nominal?
>
> I have looked through online help, the manuals and more widely on the 
> Internet and haven't found the answers anywhere.
>
> Regards,
> Jennifer Baxter
> PhD Candidate
> Demography and Sociology
> Australian National University
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