Re: st: new problem with table display

["Jennifer S. Earl" <jearl@soc.ucsb.edu>]

Thanks Maarten and Richard for your suggestions. I have verified that I am 
using doubles and the numbers I am using are case identifiers so every 
digit is meaningful.

I tried bigtab and it will produce the tables, but with a couple of 
problems, which may be unavoidable, but I thought I would email the list 
again to see if anyone had suggestions. The program I am running the tables 
in is a data cleaning programming that flags bad values so that the project 
team can review those cases. So, each error is set to 0 when it is 
generated, and then replaced with the case's id number when the error is 
present. So, if you run a tab of the error, you get the number of 
unproblematic cases as the frequencies of 0s and the id numbers of the bad 
cases.

Since I have a lot of errors to look for, I generate the tables at the end 
of the do file in a group, as in:

* prints out the frequencies for each type of error *
forvalues i = 1(1)9 {
	tab tac_err00`i' if sum(tac_err00`i')>0 & tac_err00`i'>0
}

forvalues i = 10(1)99 {
	tab tac_err0`i' if sum(tac_err0`i')>0 & tac_err0`i'>0
}

However, bigtab won't display the variable label, as tab does, in the table 
header, forcing me to produce a separate error codebook for my cleaners 
versus allowing them to see the variable label with the table.

And, bigtab stops if there are no observations (i.e., no errors for that 
error variable) whereas tab just prints "no observations" and moves on. I 
tried putting capture in front of the bigtab command, but that oddly 
resulted in no output whatsoever, even when there were known errors that 
should have printed. So, I end up not being able to condition the tables, 
and hence have a bunch of tables I don't need, from the following commands:

forvalues i = 1(1)9 {
	bigtab tac_err00`i'
}

forvalues i = 10(1)99 {
	bigtab tac_err0`i'
}

So, if anyone has any ideas about how to work-around these two 
issues--displaying the variable labels anyway (not the individual value 
labels, of which there are none) and producing bigtabs only when I want, I 
would appreciate it.

Thanks again.

Best,

Jenn


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Jennifer Earl
Director, Center for Information Technology and Society
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9430

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