Re: st: Centering column headers using estpost tabulate (twoway) in LaTeX table

[annoporci <annoporci@gmail.com>]

I think you want to override the automatic alignment. I think you may be  
able to achieve that by adding: layout("\multicolumn{1{c}{@}")

That and much more is discussed here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48966/esttab-overriding-decimal-alignment

See also this:

http://www.jwe.cc/2012/03/stata-latex-tables-estout/


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Patrick Toche.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:11:28 +0800, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd.89@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am trying to create a simple twoway tabulation table in LaTeX using
> the excellent user-written esttab command (version 2.0.5, part of the
> estout package).
>
> I am reporting both observation counts and row percentages, with the
> value labels as column headers. Everything looks great using the code
> below, but I would like to make one minor modification: center the
> column headers between the observation count and row percent columns.
>
> That is, currently the column header ("Domestic", "Foreign", "Total")
> appears directly above the observation count column, I would like to
> shift these slightly to the right so that the span both the
> observation count and row percent columns. An example of what I would
> like to do is found in Table 1 of the tabout tutorial, page 13 of
> http://www.ianwatson.com.au/stata/tabout_tutorial.pdf.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Best,
> BL
>
> Stata code:
>
> set more off
> estimates clear
> sysuse auto
> local rowvar_label : variable label rep78
> local colvar_label : variable label foreign
>
> estpost tabulate rep78 foreign
>
> esttab using esttab-example.tex, booktabs replace ///
> 	cell("b rowpct(fmt(2))") collabels("N" "Row Pct") ///
> 	unstack nonote noobs nonumber ///
> 	eqlabels(, lhs("`rowvar_label'")) ///
> 	nomtitles ///
> 	mgroups("`colvar_label'", pattern(1 0 0)    ///
>         prefix(\multicolumn{@span}{c}{) suffix(})   ///
>         span erepeat(\cmidrule(lr){@span}))
>
>
> Generated TeX code:
>
> {
> \def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}
> \begin{tabular}{l*{3}{cc}}
> \toprule
>             &\multicolumn{6}{c}{Car type}
>                    \\\cmidrule(lr){2-7}
> Repair Record 1978&    Domestic&            &     Foreign&
> &       Total&            \\
>             &           N&     Row Pct&           N&     Row Pct&
>      N&     Row Pct\\
> \midrule
> 1           &           2&      100.00&           0&        0.00&
>      2&      100.00\\
> 2           &           8&      100.00&           0&        0.00&
>      8&      100.00\\
> 3           &          27&       90.00&           3&       10.00&
>     30&      100.00\\
> 4           &           9&       50.00&           9&       50.00&
>     18&      100.00\\
> 5           &           2&       18.18&           9&       81.82&
>     11&      100.00\\
> Total       &          48&       69.57&          21&       30.43&
>     69&      100.00\\
> \bottomrule
> \end{tabular}
> }
>
>
> pdf table:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2937392/esttab-twoway-tabulate-example.pdf
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