Re: st: store tabulate command results in excel

[Anisa Shyti <anisa.shyti@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the answer.

Condition is actually a categorical variable coded as (1, 2, 3).
Answer is string and there are 12 questions - questionIDs are
integers.  My data structure is the following:

QuestionID..............Condition................Answer
1..............................1.............................Y
1..............................1.............................N
1..............................1.............................N
1..............................2.............................Y
1..............................2.............................Y
1..............................2.............................N
2..............................1.............................Y
2..............................1.............................Y
2..............................1.............................N
2..............................2.............................Y
2..............................2.............................N
2..............................2.............................N


My table should look like:

.................................Answer...........................
................................Y..................N..........Total
Question1................
-Condition1..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
-Condition2..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
Question2
-Condition1..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)
-Condition2..............nr(%).............nr(%).....nr(%)

Thank you very much in advance.
Anisa




On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't understand your data structure (e.g. what are conditions?) and why -tabout- (from SSC, BTW) does not work.  Providing a snippet of your dataset and the command you tried would help me provide a better answer.
>
>
> Based just on your sample -tab- command, you can transform that to -tabout- with something like:
>
>
> ******
> cap rm "test.xls"
> levelsof question, local(ques_numbers)
> foreach n in `ques_numbers' {
>   tabout condition answer using "test.xls", append  ///
>      c(freq row) h1(Question `n' )
>         }
> ******
> ((The looping part is doing the -bysort question- part of your example -tab- command.))
>
> - Eric
>
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> Eric A. Booth
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> Texas A&M University
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>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Anisa Shyti wrote:
>
>
>> I need to store in excel or any other support the results of a two-way
>> tabulate command.  My variables are: question, condition and asnwer.
>> I have N questions, three conditions for each question, and Y or N
>> answers by subjects.
>>
>> The tab command (by question, sort: tab condition answer, row) gives
>> exactly what I need. For each question (distinguished by id) and each
>> condition, I have the number and percentage of Y and N answers and the
>> Total - in columns.
>>
>> Still, I would like to be able to store these results in excel or any
>> other support, instead of copy pasting.  I tried using the tabout
>> command (my case is a 2x1 table) - it does not give me the desired
>> format.
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