Do you mean something like this?
clear
input group ease
1 1
1 1
1 2
1 3
1 5
2 1
2 2
2 3
2 4
2 5
end
egen freq = count(ease), by(gr eas)
replace freq = freq/_N
duplicates drop
reshape wide freq, j(gr) i(ea)
graph bar (asis) freq1 freq2, over(ease)
Scott
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Philip Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> After substantial frustration at my inability to simply perform this task in Stata, I am asking this group for help!
>
> I know that it will be easy to answer, but I am unable to come up with the correct way of shaping my data for the following need of graphing.
>
> I have a Likert scale (1 to 5) that two groups of people answered. I would like to create a bar graph with the x axis labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for each Likert level. I would then simply like to plot frequencies of responses as the bars, so that each level of the Likert scale would have one for each group (i.e. two bars of frequencies for each of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
>
> My attempt (which creates the look of the graph that I want):
>
> clear *
> input ease_level group1 group2
> 1 24 26
> 2 13 15
> 3 12 12
> 4 8 6
> 5 1 6
> end
>
> graph bar (asis) group1 group2, over(ease)
>
> This works well, except my data are not in this format. Rather, they are in the following format:
>
> clear *
> input group ease
> 1 1
> 1 1
> 1 2
> 1 3
> 1 5
> 2 1
> 2 2
> 2 3
> 2 4
> 2 5
> end
>
> I have searched the re-shaping commands, but cannot successfully convert my data to this format.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you,
>
> Phil Jones
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