st: Exporting descriptive statistics to excel

[Kyle Peyton <kyle.peyton@unimelb.edu.au>]

Hi all,


I've been trying to work out something that I think should be pretty simple. I have a large time series dataset and I want to examine the very basic summary statistics that are reported by the sum command for several select variables across 9 years. The code I have written to accomplish this in Stata is the following:


forvalues year = 2000/2009  {
      foreach x of varlist `list1' {
                display `year'
                sum `x' if year == `year'
                }
}

Which loops through and gives me the summary statistics for each variable in each year. Unfortunately this is quite a long list. Is it possible to export the data to excel and have a look at each variable across each year, so my top excel row would look like this: Year Variable Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max for a total of 8 columns, which would contain all my summary statistics? I realize it may be better if I first rename all the variables in `list1' to include a _year suffix and thereby reduce my desired excel column width to 7 before trying to export. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Kyle

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