Re: st: store tabulate command results in excel

[Anisa Shyti <anisa.shyti@gmail.com>]

Thanks Eric!

Problem solved - works wonderfully!!!!

Thanks a lot,
Cheers
Anisa

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com> wrote:
> <>
>
> BTW, if you wanted to add the labels to "Condition" in the -tabout- table as you do in your example, then add this code into your do-file just before you run the loop I gave you:
>
> ************ add in to prev. code example
> levelsof Condition, loc(c)
> foreach v in `c' {
>        loc j `" `j' `v' "- Condition `v'" "'
>        }
>
> lab def jj `j', modify
> lab val Condition jj
> ta Condition
> ************
>
> - Eric
>
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> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
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>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Eric Booth wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> <>
>>
>> The answer is basically the same then (save a correction in my previous email noted below).
>>
>> So, you could run:
>>
>> ****************
>> clear
>>
>> input QuestionID   Condition str2  Answer
>> 1     1         Y
>> 1     1         N
>> 1     1         N
>> 1     2         Y
>> 1     2         Y
>> 1     2         N
>> 2     1         Y
>> 2     1         Y
>> 2     1         N
>> 2     2         Y
>> 2     2         N
>> 2     2         N
>> end
>>
>>
>> ******
>> cap rm "test.xls"
>> levelsof QuestionID, loc(q)
>> foreach n in `q' {
>>  tabout Condition Answer ///
>>     if QuestionID == `n' /* I left this part out in the previous answ.*/  ///
>>   using "test.xls", append  ///
>>     c(freq row) h1(Question `n' )
>>        }
>> ****************
>>
>> - Eric
>>
>> __
>> Eric A. Booth
>> Public Policy Research Institute
>> Texas A&M University
>> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
>> +979.845.6754
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Anisa Shyti wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the answer.
>>>
>>> Condition is actually a categorical variable coded as (1, 2, 3).
>>> Answer is string and there are 12 questions - questionIDs are
>>> integers.  My data structure is the following:
>>>
>>> QuestionID..............Condition................Answer
>>> 1..............................1.............................Y
>>> 1..............................1.............................N
>>> 1..............................1.............................N
>>> 1..............................2.............................Y
>>> 1..............................2.............................Y
>>> 1..............................2.............................N
>>> 2..............................1.............................Y
>>> 2..............................1.............................Y
>>> 2..............................1.............................N
>>> 2..............................2.............................Y
>>> 2..............................2.............................N
>>> 2..............................2.............................N
>>>
>>>
>>> My table should look like:
>>>
>>> .................................Answer...........................
>>> ................................Y..................N..........Total
>>> Question1................
>>> -Condition1..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
>>> -Condition2..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
>>> Question2
>>> -Condition1..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
>>> -Condition2..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>> Anisa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <>
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand your data structure (e.g. what are conditions?) and why -tabout- (from SSC, BTW) does not work.  Providing a snippet of your dataset and the command you tried would help me provide a better answer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Based just on your sample -tab- command, you can transform that to -tabout- with something like:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ******
>>>> cap rm "test.xls"
>>>> levelsof question, local(ques_numbers)
>>>> foreach n in `ques_numbers' {
>>>>  tabout condition answer using "test.xls", append  ///
>>>>     c(freq row) h1(Question `n' )
>>>>        }
>>>> ******
>>>> ((The looping part is doing the -bysort question- part of your example -tab- command.))
>>>>
>>>> - Eric
>>>>
>>>> __
>>>> Eric A. Booth
>>>> Public Policy Research Institute
>>>> Texas A&M University
>>>> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
>>>> +979.845.6754
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Anisa Shyti wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I need to store in excel or any other support the results of a two-way
>>>>> tabulate command.  My variables are: question, condition and asnwer.
>>>>> I have N questions, three conditions for each question, and Y or N
>>>>> answers by subjects.
>>>>>
>>>>> The tab command (by question, sort: tab condition answer, row) gives
>>>>> exactly what I need. For each question (distinguished by id) and each
>>>>> condition, I have the number and percentage of Y and N answers and the
>>>>> Total - in columns.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, I would like to be able to store these results in excel or any
>>>>> other support, instead of copy pasting.  I tried using the tabout
>>>>> command (my case is a 2x1 table) - it does not give me the desired
>>>>> format.
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