And as for percents, catching missings,
and working with -if- and -in-: it
really needs a program.
One program in this area is -catplot-
from SSC. What it actually does can be seen by reading the help
Thanks for pointing this one out again Nick (missed it earlier apparently),
it looks like a handy tool especially for those
have-a-quick-look-what's-in-it graphs. These are made very often during
analysis, before reporting final results. Because of the frequency of use
the elegancy of the command makes a lot of sense here and is an improvement
if one wants to learn people to use Stata by using the command-box.