st: Program for collecting the totals from tabm

[Daniel Chandler <dwchandl@suddenlink.net>]

Hi,

As a preface I would like to express my gratitude for tabm and the many
other user-written programs I use all the time (statplot being the most
recent).

Using tabm I can summarize a number of comparable variables, in this case
a Likert scale going from 1-6:


. tabm iu1staff- iu5staffrev, nofreq row valuelabel(response)

                     |                              values
            variable             |        SD    MD    D   A      MA    SA
|     Total
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
--------------+----------
Staff accepts me for |      2.01       3.02       3.02      11.06
34.17      46.73 |    100.00
Staff is interested     |      9.55      12.56      13.07      26.13
25.13      13.57|    100.00
Staff respects my sp |      3.57       1.02       1.02      11.22
27.55      55.61 |    100.00
Staff appreciates my |      1.50       2.50       3.00      17.50
35.50      40.00 |    100.00
Staff doesn¹t really    |      3.48       7.46       9.45      13.43
30.85      35.32 |    100.00
----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
--------------+----------
               Total                |      4.02       5.33       5.93
15.88      30.65      38.19 |    100.00


I have 75 variables that I would like to get the "Totals" for (in groups
of 5 as above). I would like the totals to be contracted into a table or
dataset with 15 rows corresponding to the 15 totals rows.

Here is an example done manually (with percentages converted to
fractions--which is not a necessary part of what I need):

                         SD     MD     D      A      MA    SA
Individual Uniqueness 0.0392      0.0653      0.0933     0.1604     0.319
  0.3228
Non-judgmentalism     0.0444      0.1463    0.1556      0.1778     0.2241
0.2519
Motivation            0.0241      0.0352     0.037       0.1204     0.3593
 0.4241
Power                 0.0243       0.0578     0.069     0.1623      0.3489
 0.3377
Respect               0.0241     0.0463     0.0556     0.1481     0.3148
0.4111


I have not been able to figure out how to do this except manually, which
won't work as this is to be part of a program run recurrently.

I would be grateful for suggestions.

Dan


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Dan Chandler
436 Old Wagon Road
Trinidad, CA 95570
E-mail: dwc3_MAIL_AT_humboldt.edu










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