Dear Nick,
Thanks so much. -ysc(titlegap(1))- worked a treat.
I take your point 3 about the gap between 1995 and 2002. The thing is, those are my survey years, so there's no data in between. If I can trouble you further, can you please tell me how I can plot time literally for this kind of data?
Thanks once again,
Ramani
Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Comments on various levels:
>
> 1. In any paper I was reviewing or editing I
> would strongly suggest changing labels like
> 10.0 to 50.0 to 10 to 50, if that is the
> problem. The extra ".0" is not informative
> or decorative.
>
> 2. Try the option -ysc(titlegap())-.
>
> 3. As in point #1 I would always recommend
> plotting time literally for this kind
> of data. Your last gap of
> 7 years should not be plotted as equivalent
> to the other gaps of 5 years. Many texts
> on graphics make this point, most recently
> Howard Wainer's "Graphic discovery",
> Princeton U.P. 2005.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Ramani Gunatilaka
>
> > I am trying to plot income shares by quintile for five survey years.
> > My problem is that the graph that the following command
> > generates places the y-axis title too close to the y-axis so
> > that it gets super-imposed on the axis labels and makes the
> > graph looks messy.
> > I have looked at the graphics manual and experimented with
> > the options graphregion, marginstyle, position, ring and
> > justification, but have not been able to solve the problem.
>
> > twoway (line Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4
> > Quintile5 Year), ylabel(0(10.0)50.0) ytitle( "Share of Income
> > %") xlabel(1 "1980" 2 "1985" 3 "1990" 4 "1995" 5 "2002")
> > xtitle( "Year" ) leg(rows(1))
>
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