Re: st: Rounding output to one decimal place

[Ian Watson <i.watson@econ.usyd.edu.au>]

Dear Shelby

-tabout- will do what you want. Among other things, it is a wrapper for 
-tabulate- and will allow you to get the result you want:

tabout race using myfile.txt, f(1)

It's formating is simpler than that found in -tabulate- (just give the 
number of decimal places) and it also allows currencies and percentage 
symbols.

You can check it out quickly by looking at the tutorial at:
http://www.ianwatson.com.au/stata/tabout_tutorial.pdf

and you can obtain it within Stata by typing:

ssc install tabout

Cheers
Ian

McCulley, Shelby wrote:

> My office is in the process of implementing Stata as our data analysis
> tool.  Our standard for reports is that we (nearly always) round numbers
> in tables to one decimal point. 
> The -format- option appears to work with -table- and -tabstat-, so I can
> round output for a table of means or medians (for example).  However,
> -tabulate-, which we would use for frequency distributions on
> categorical variables, does not accept the -format- option.
>
> Example:
> . tabulate race, format(%2.1%)
> option format() not allowed
> r(198);
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Most of what I've found on the
> internet relates to output for regression or other more-advanced
> analyses - I'm hoping there is a simple solution I have overlooked.
> Thank you!
>
> Shelby McCulley
> Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau
> Phone: 608.259.9825
> Fax: 608.267.0410
> shelby.mcculley@legis.state.wi.us
>
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