Re: st: RE: Table with medians of a variable with many categoricalvariables

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

I don't think "quick question" deserves quite this
much discredit. In particular:

1. I would agree with you that just as simple question
   may have unsimple answers, quick questions may have
   unquick answers; but I don't see why one would
   therefore refrain from framing either as what
   they are.

2. "quick question" doesn't indicate to me either
   triviality (see 1 above) or apology.

cheers,
Jeph



Nick Cox wrote:
> Never say "I have a quick question". 
> 1. If the question's quick, the answer may not be!
>
> 2. If you think your question is trivial, then don't ask 
> it. If you think your question is interesting, it needs no
> apology. 
> That said, -findit tabout-. I think -tabout- can do this. 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> Mehmet Eris
>  
> > I have a quick question about tables in Stata. I want to have table of
> > medians for one variable, say income,  for a bunch of categorical
> > variables, say household head's sex, educational level etc.
> >
> > Table would something like the following:
> > =========================
> >                               median of income
> > ========================
> > Sex:
> >   Male
> >   Female
> >
> > Educational level:
> >   Secondary
> >   Vocational
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > ====================
> >
> > table A, c(median X) is sort of what I am looking for. It gives the
> > median of the variable X for each category in A. But this one
> > works for only one variable.  I don't want to do it one by one for
> > each row categorical variable. It will be really tedious as I have to
> > do it for so many times.
> >
> > Is there any tricks or commands that I can use to achieve what I want
> > to do?  I also want to be able to export the table I get to Excel,
> > BTW.
> >
> >
> > Thanks so very much in advance!
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