There are commands to do this, which I presume is what you want. In
official Stata it is not too difficult. First read in suitable data
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
Suppose that -foreign- were a string variable, which we can simulate
with
. decode foreign, gen(Foreign)
Now go
. gen one = 1
. graph hbar (sum) one, over(Foreign) ytitle(frequency)
However, the user-written command -catplot- from SSC may prove more
convenient.
. catplot hbar Foreign
For -hbar- read also -bar-, for vertical versions usually more difficult
to read.
Nick
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Florian Wakolbinger
is there an option in stata to draw bar charts of string variables, i.e.
if the variable contains 40 "yes" and 60 "no", to draw a chart with two
bars of height 40 and 60?
to put it differently, is there an option to visualize the results of
the command tab varname
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