st: RE: Tabulating multiple Likert-variable frequencies

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

One way to do this is with -tabm-. -tabm- is part of -tab_chi- on SSC. 

Here is an example: 

. set obs 100
obs was 0, now 100

. forval j = 1/5 {
  2. gen my`j' = ceil(5 * runiform())
  3. }

. tabm my*

           |                         values
  variable |         1          2          3          4          5 |     Total
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----------
       my1 |        21         24         19         17         19 |       100 
       my2 |        21         16         20         23         20 |       100 
       my3 |        19         21         23         13         24 |       100 
       my4 |        18         32         17         15         18 |       100 
       my5 |        17         17         14         32         20 |       100 
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----------
     Total |        96        110         93        100        101 |       500 



Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Roosa Kohvakka

Is there an easy way to create a table of multiple Likert-variables, 
looking something like this:

Rows: Var_, ..., Var_n
Columns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (i.e. the Likert-scale)

Cells would be frequencies or percentages.

tab1-command is not of any use as I have so many variables: The idea is 
to get one long table with six columns (Likert scales plus var names) 
and as many rows as there are variables (+1).


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