Re: st: Graph with Panel Data

[Nirina F <fstata@gmail.com>]

Fine line between discussion forum and help line: do you know of a
guide book that helps with graphs for panel with stata please? Since I
seem to not get it from help graph using panel with stata.
Thanks

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 21 February 2014 18:40, Nirina F <fstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Did this email go through? Could anyone please help?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Nirina F <fstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Sorry if I am sending this twice but I had an issue with my email.
>>> I have panel data and I am trying to graph the following.
>>>
>>> I have 120 countries and 40 years of data. Then I have a list of
>>> classifications of regions: western, southern etc....
>>> I also created a variable that groups the years into decades by
>>> recoding the year.
>>> I have a list of variables income, consumption that l called xvar in global.
>>> I collapsed the data by Country and decades
>>>
>>> I have another collapse by Country and year ( By the way, is there a
>>> way to go back to previous data without having to save the new
>>> collapsed data?)
>>> I have kept all the classification dummies while doing the collapse.
>>>
>>> I know I could do export my data and do the graphs with excel but
>>> Stata graphs look neater and beautiful so I was wondering if anyone
>>> could help.
>>>
>>> "I did read the statahelp but I somehow could not get the output graph
>>> I would like- My output looked messy"
>>>
>>> 1- I would like to get the sum of the variables xvars by
>>> classifications(southern)
>>> 2-I then would like to have a trend by year of the countries southern
>>> vs. non-southern (since it is a dummy) [I would like to see a solid
>>> line for southern through years and dotted lines for non-southern]
>>> 3- I would like to repeat the same graph but instead of by year, by decades.
>>> 4- I would like to do a stacked bar graph of 5 of my xvars by decades
>>> by classifications
>>> 4- I would like to do a stacked bar graph of 5 of my xvars by decades
>>> for just 4 countries and the graphs are next to each other.
>>> Thank you so much always for your help.
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