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Re: st: tabulate results -> Excel


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: tabulate results -> Excel
Date   Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:15:10 +0000

At 17:00 23/11/2004, Kit Baum wrote:
Posting for my colleague Peter Gottschalk:

I have a bunch of crosstabs (from tabulate) that need to be turned into tables in an excel spreadsheet. Is there a way of outputing the contents of tabulate to a file?

A possibility is to use -xcontract-, downloadable from SSC, instead of -tabulate-. If you type

tempfile tf1 tf2 tf3
xcontract y, saving(`tf1', replace) freq(rowfreq) percent(rowpct)
xcontract x, saving(`tf2', replace) freq(colfreq) percent(colpct)
xcontract x y, saving(`tf3', replace) freq(cellfreq) percent(cellpct)
use `tf3', clear
merge x using `tf2'
sort y x
merge y using `tf1'
sort x y

then you should have a dataset in memory with 1 observation per cell and variables
x, y, rowfreq, rowpct, colfreq, colpct, cellfreq and cellpct, containing the x-values and y-values and also the row, column and cell frequencies and percents. This dataset can be further reprocessed using -reshape-, if Peter wants a dataset with 1 observation per row instead of a dataset with 1 observation per cell. The final dataset can be output to a text spreadsheet file using the official Stata command -outsheet-.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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