st: differences in percentages across categories

[Mirko Moro <mirko.moro@gmail.com>]

Dear Statlisters,

Imagine I have 2 categorical variables, say Repair Record in 1978 and
Headroom (suppose I treat Headroom as categorical variable):

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. tab rep78 headroom, row nofreq

    Repair |
    Record |                          Headroom (in.)
      1978 |       1.5        2.0        2.5        3.0        3.5
   4.0 |     Total
-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
         1 |     50.00      50.00       0.00       0.00       0.00
  0.00 |    100.00
         2 |      0.00      37.50       0.00       0.00      12.50
 25.00 |    100.00
         3 |      0.00      16.67      16.67      13.33      33.33
 10.00 |    100.00
         4 |     11.11       5.56      27.78      16.67      11.11
 27.78 |    100.00
         5 |      0.00      27.27      36.36      36.36       0.00
  0.00 |    100.00
-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
     Total |      4.35      18.84      20.29      15.94      18.84
 14.49 |    100.00


    Repair |
    Record |    Headroom (in.)
      1978 |       4.5        5.0 |     Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
         1 |      0.00       0.00 |    100.00
         2 |     12.50      12.50 |    100.00
         3 |     10.00       0.00 |    100.00
         4 |      0.00       0.00 |    100.00
         5 |      0.00       0.00 |    100.00
-----------+----------------------+----------
     Total |      5.80       1.45 |    100.00


I would like to test whether the percentage of car with headroom equal
to 1.5 inch vary across repair records, after that I wish to know
whether the percentage of car with headroom equal to 2.5 inch vary
across repair records, and so on.

Is there a way to do this or I need multinomial models with varying
baseline and reference categories?

Cheers,

Mirko

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Mirko Moro
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Economics Division
University of Stirling
FK94LA
Scotland (UK)
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