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Re: st: STATA graph question: Combining Histograms
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: STATA graph question: Combining Histograms
Date
Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:37:50 +0100
-catplot- (SSC), referred to earlier in the thread, is an alternative
way of getting Stata to draw a stacked bar plot.
Nick
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marlis wrote:
>
> I am trying to combine frequency histograms for several questions
> into one graph. Each variable has the answers to questions in a
> likert scale (always, frequently, infrequently, never, don't know).
> I want to plot the frequency and percent for each question side by
> side. Have not found a good way to do this.
>
> **********************************************************
>
> With Likert-type questions, stacked bars communicate efficiently.
> Recycling part of Nick's suggestion:
>
> clear
> set obs 100
> forval i = 1/10 {
> gen answ`i' = ceil(5 * runiform())
> }
> gen id = _n
> reshape long answ , i(id) j(ques)
>
> gen x=1
> graph bar (count) x , ///
> over(answ) over(ques) asyvars percent stack ///
> bar(1, fcolor(gs0)) ///
> bar(2, fcolor(gs6)) ///
> bar(3, fcolor(gs10)) ///
> bar(4, fcolor(gs13)) ///
> bar(5, fcolor(gs16)) ///
> legend(pos(4) order(5 "strongly disagree" 4 "disagree" ///
> 3 "neither-nor" 2 "agree" 1 "strongly agree"))
>
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