Re: st: RE: xtline with labels

[Scott Cunningham <scunning@gmail.com>]

Great - thanks Nick.  I'm reading the manual on -encode- and -decode-  
and it solves in a simple manner things I've been taking the long way  
around previously.  Thanks again. -sc

On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Nick Cox wrote:


> If your data include only 10 states, then it's
> more like
>
> decode id, gen(ID)
>
> forval i = 1/10 {
> 	local label = ID[`i']
> 	xtline ... if id == `i', subtitle("`label'")
> }
>
> or
>
> forval i = 1/10 {
> 	xtline ... if id == `i', subtitle("`= ID[`i']'")
> }
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Scott
> > Cunningham
> > Sent: 06 September 2006 18:23
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Re: st: RE: xtline with labels
> >
> >
> > Thanks Nick.  -ecode- and -decode- are new to me.  I'm looking it up
> > now.
> >
> > 10 states - I'm only looking at 10 states right now.
> >
> > scott
> >
> > On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> >
> > > First off, you need to read up some basics on -encode-
> > > and -decode-.
> > >
> > > I know of 50 U.S. states, so I am not clear how you get
> > > 10 different graphs with 10 different states on each.
> > > I guess 10 different graphs with 5 states on each.
> > >
> > > First, you have to set up your grouping in advance.
> > >
> > > Let a variable -group- indicate each subset of states.
> > > Set it up so that the values run from 1 to 10.
> > >
> > > A minimal recipe which you will want to complicate is
> > >
> > > decode id, generate(ID)
> > >
> > > forval i = 1/10 {
> > > 	levelsof ID, local(IDS) clean
> > > 	xtline sexratio if group == `i', subtitle("`IDS'")
> > > }
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> > >
> > > Scott Cunningham
> > >
> > > > I have a small dataset containing the ratios of men to women for
> > > > blacks and whites at the United States level that varies by age.  I
> > > > want to use -xtline- to create 10 different graphs, with
> > the name of
> > > > 10 different U.S. states above each graph.  The data is tsset as:
> > > >
> > > > . tsset id age
> > > >
> > > > where "id" is a numerical identifier of a United States state
> > > > and age
> > > > is the sex ratio for that state at different ages.  I've
> > labeled the
> > > > values of "id" using "label define idlbl # [name]" so that
> > > > each value
> > > > has its accompany US State.  Is there a way to cause xtline
> > > > to report
> > > > the names of each state used to create each independent sex ratio?
> > > > Because, when I do this:
> > > >
> > > > . xtline sexratio
> > > >
> > > > it reports a number above each graph.
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