Re: st: tabulate results -> Excel

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 17:00 23/11/2004, Kit Baum wrote:
> Posting for my colleague Peter Gottschalk:
>
> I have a bunch of crosstabs (from tabulate) that need to be turned into 
> tables in an excel spreadsheet. Is there a way of outputing the contents 
> of tabulate to a file?
A possibility is to use -xcontract-, downloadable from SSC, instead of 
-tabulate-. If you type

tempfile tf1 tf2 tf3
xcontract y, saving(`tf1', replace) freq(rowfreq) percent(rowpct)
xcontract x, saving(`tf2', replace) freq(colfreq) percent(colpct)
xcontract x y, saving(`tf3', replace) freq(cellfreq) percent(cellpct)
use `tf3', clear
merge x using `tf2'
sort y x
merge y using `tf1'
sort x y

then you should have a dataset in memory with 1 observation per cell and 
variables
x, y, rowfreq, rowpct, colfreq, colpct, cellfreq and cellpct, containing 
the x-values and y-values and also the row, column and cell frequencies and 
percents. This dataset can be further reprocessed using -reshape-, if Peter 
wants a dataset with 1 observation per row instead of a dataset with 1 
observation per cell. The final dataset can be output to a text spreadsheet 
file using the official Stata command -outsheet-.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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