st: Descriptive statistics table for continuous variables by several subgroups

["Marie-Luise Schmitz" <querida-ise@gmx.de>]

Dear Stata users,
 
I want to produce a table of descriptive statistics (mean values) for several continuous variables for different subgroups and years. Basically, I want to obtain a table that looks as follows:
 
                            2006                      2007                           2008
variable      all     north    south         all     north    south         all     north    south
var_1       
var_2
var_3
N. obs.
 
I would like to export this table into Latex afterwards which might further complicate things.
 
I tried several things using the tabulate command but nothing worked because my rowvariables are not categorial. 
Any help will be highly appreciated.

Marie

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