Re: st: how keep row variables even if they are missing

[Abu Camara <abucamara@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the effort. That did not work either.
Abu.

On 4 April 2011 20:07, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue I gather is that Stata omits observations ("row variables")
> from tables when values are missing.
>
> ("drop" is the wrong word here.)
>
> -tabstat- has an option -missing-. I don't know if that's enough for you.
>
> You'd have to work much harder with -table- to get what you want, I think.
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Abu Camara <abucamara@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am generating about 60 tables once and I use the group format
>> in excel to format all the tables at once. But challenges come in because
>> stata will drop row variables when missing values exist everywhere.
>>
>> Could someone help me with a way to keep all the row variables
>> even if they are missing everywhere (opposite of "concise" command?). I am
>> using both the
>> "table" and "tabstat"command of stata to run these tables.
>>
>> For example tabulating variable "Country" and "Year". Stata will drop a country
>> like Somalia or Iraq because of missing data for all the years under study.
>> I want to keep the names of the countries even if they are missing so that all
>> my tables will have the same length and breadth (size).
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