-catplot- is a user-written command.
I just looked at the help and found this explanation:
'The default display with -bar- and -hbar- is graphically
conservative, reflecting the view that height of bars
and text indicating categories are the best ways of conveying
information. If you wish also to have bars in different
colours, specify the option -asyvars-, which differentiates
the categories of the first named variable.... If you
wish also to stack bars of different colours, specify the
further option -stack-.'
So I surmise that you are not specifying -asyvars- (read
"as [separate] y var[iables]s".
The logic here, which perhaps should be spelled out,
is not that of the author of -catplot-.
Stata quite rightly won't stack bars of the same colour,
as they would then be indistinguishable within the
stacked bar.
With the auto data, an analogue of your simpler problem
might be
. catplot hbar rep78 foreign, percent(foreign) asyvars stack
or
. catplot bar rep78 foreign, percent(foreign) asyvars stack
or
. catplot bar rep78, by(foreign) percent(foreign) asyvars stack
Your more complicated problem would seem to require either
juxtaposing three separate bar charts, or a -reshape- from
four variables to three:
I assume you have some identifier variable, say -id-.
reshape long assessment, i(id) j(type)
after which you can do something like
catplot bar assessment outcome, by(type, row(1))
percent(type outcome) asyvars stack
or
catplot bar outcome assessment , by(type, row(1))
percent(type assess) asyvars stack
Be warned: -catplot- isn't smart enough to do
the right thing with
catplot bar outcome assessment , by(type, row(1) total)
percent(type assess) asyvars stack
I only just noticed this. That is, within -catplot-,
1. Percents are constructed to be what
-percent()- says they are.
2. Nothing special is done about -by()-.
It is just passed along to -graph-.
3. To do the right thing given a "total"
within -by()- would require peeking inside
-by()- and doing a work-around. That sounds
too much like hard work to me, so I guess
that it is not likely to happen w.r.t. -catplot-.
Having said all that, you could just construct
your own percent variables and then use -graph bar-
or -graph hbar- directly. That way, no limitations
of -catplot- will bite.
Nick
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Fiona Bruinsma
> I have a number of categorical variables that I want to
> present on a stacked
> bar chart (for each of the bars the height of the bar will be 100%).
>
> My categorical variable (from 1-4) is the number of times an
> individual has
> had a certain type of assessment by the outcome of interest
> (0=no, 1=yes).
>
> I have included an example of the tabulated command I used to
> generate the
> data I am trying to present graphically
> tab2 DSM_mdep as_ht if self_ref==1, row mi
>
> Ideally, I would then like to present on the same graph a number of
> different types of assessment by the outcome (assessment1 by outcome,
> assessment2 by outcome, assessment3 by outcome).
>
> Catplot has been of some assistance but I haven't yet been
> able to get it to stack the bars.
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