Dear listers,
I´m trying to create a graph with age on the y axis and time on the x axis (year). So far so good, the problem is that I´d like each year to be represented with the distribution of age on the y axis. I was thinking color coding the number of people within each 10-year category on the y axis, and having the colors with the associated numbers in the legend. preferably all within a twoway graph so that I could also superimpose the median in the end.
egen agecut=cut(age),at(0(10)100)
gives me this
tab agecut Ye
| Year
agecut | 1953-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 | Total
-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
0 | 23 19 16 7 6 3 | 74
10 | 32 17 7 11 2 6 | 75
20 | 43 39 38 17 9 4 | 150
30 | 110 59 77 66 21 21 | 354
40 | 213 129 153 177 78 54 | 804
50 | 444 301 259 273 193 144 | 1,614
60 | 342 330 427 375 211 215 | 1,900
70 | 72 104 193 257 149 139 | 914
80 | 2 13 12 26 33 40 | 126
90 | 0 1 0 1 0 1 | 3
-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
Total | 1,281 1,012 1,182 1,210 702 627 | 6,014
I cannot get my head around to figuring out how to maintain age on the y-axis and have the frequencies color coded instead of having the frequencies on the y-axis and the age categories in the legend. Any ideas?
//M
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