I received a couple of messages off-list regarding a query that I
posted in October 2003. I had tried to create a stacked bar chart
with one label per bar, indicating total height. I received no
responses and never posted my solution, which you will find below. My
original message is in the archive:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-10/msg00127.html
As an example, the data below shows the share of the population in
countries A and B that speaks at least one or two foreign languages.
country onelang twolang
A 30 10
B 20 5
A stacked bar graph shows that in country A 40 percent of the
population speak at least one foreign language. In country B 25
percent of the population speak at least one foreign language.
. graph bar onelang twolang, over(country) stack blabel(total)
If we want only one label indicating the total height we have to
transform the data so that a twoway bar plot can be drawn. The labels
are added with a twoway scatter plot.
. gen total = onelang + twolang
. gen barnumber = 1
. replace barnumber = 2 if country=="B"
. graph twoway scatter total barnumber, msymbol(none) mlabel(total)
mlabpos(12) || bar total barnumber || bar onelang barnumber,
yscale(r(0 45)) ylabel(0(10)40) xtitle("") xlabel(1 "Country A" 2
"Country B") legend(col(2) label(2 "Two languages") label(3 "One
language") order(3 2))
The commands can be expanded to accommodate more than two categories
(e.g., onelang, twolang, and threelang; or countries A, B, and C).
Notice that the graph has to be built up from the back, with the
tallest bars being drawn first in the -bar ... || bar ...- sequence.
For those who read my original message, the -blabel(total)- option
used to have a bug that yielded wrong values in the labels. This bug
has been fixed.
Friedrich Huebler
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