There are several other possibilities too. For example, -histogram- itself is much more flexible than is widely known:
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. histogram mpg, by(rep78, compact row(1)) yla(, ang(h)) width(2) xsc(r(0 11)) freq horizontal
Also, check out -tabplot- from SSC.
Nick
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Nick Winter
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Interestingly, the table you include makes a nice "plot" itself,
showing, more or less, the distribution by decade.
Continuing along that line, and rather differently from what you are
asking for, violin plots are another way to show distributions over time
(or against anything). My -vioplot- from SSC will do them.
Maarten Buis
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Sounds like a case for Nick Cox's -stripplot-, which you can download from SSC by typing in Stata: -ssc install stripplot-.
The help-file contains many examples.
Moleps Islon
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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?
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