st: creating bar charts

[Scott Cunningham <scunning@gmail.com>]

I have three variables:  sexratio, age and race.  Age takes on seven  
different values: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30.  Race takes on two  
value:  1 (white) and 2 (black).  Sex ratio is the national ratio of  
on non-incarcerated men to women for each race and each age cohort  
(where "age cohort" refers to five-year gaps in age.  So, "5" is 1-5  
year olds, "10" is 6-10, and so on).

I'm trying to create a simply bar graph, and I've got it working for  
the most part, but I need to change a few things.  Here's what I have  
so far:

. graph bar (asis) SexRatio, over(race) over(age) bargap(.80) legend  
( label(1 "White") label(2 "Black") ) ytitle(Sex Ratio) title(Racial  
Dynamics in the U.S. Sex Ratio) note("Source: 2000 Census longform  
Summary File")

I thought that by changing the legend labels, it would actually  
report "white" and "black" instead of "1" and "2".  But it doesn't.   
I'm not sure what exactly I did, then, by changing the legend in this  
way.  There's no legend showing up, for instance, to the right of the  
graph if it was creating a legend.

Secondly, I wanted to make an xtitle, showing the reader that age was  
along the xaxis in five-year brackets, but when I included an -xtitle 
(Age)- I got an error.  Any ideas?


sc
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