st: different samples summary table

[altruist81@gmx.de]

Dear statalist users,

I am looking for a convenient way to do the following:

1. I start of with a dataset that has about 40000 individual observation.
2. I exclude about 10000 individuals because they are outside the age bracket that I want to consider
3. I exclude another 10000 individuals because they have missing values in some of the key covariates that I want to control for in a regression
4. My final esimtation sample has thus 20000 observations.

There are some key variables, lets call them "income" and "height" and I want to see how the means of these variables change throughout my steps 1-4.

Preferably, this should be displayed in a table that has 4 rows (with the first row showing the mean values of the initial data, second row mean values of individuals outside the age bracket, third row shows mean values of individuals with missing covariates, fourth row showing mean values of final estimation sample). Moreover, those rows should be in a wide format (i.e. from left to right), provide the number of observation affected and the table should be either in Excel or Tex format.

What ways are there to produce such a table?

Many thanks

Dar
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