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Re: st: Too many values error


From   Pablo Bonilla <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Too many values error
Date   Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:02:19 -0400

Thank  you all,

Nick's solution is very close to what I need, as follows:

groups net_inc disp_inc if year == 2000 [ w = factor] , show(f p RP)

Best,

Pablo


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> -groups- (SSC) uses -list- as a basis for showing tables. The limits
> on tabulation don't apply.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Pablo Bonilla
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, you are right, it is variable with a lot of values. In my data
>> base each obs in each year is an individual and the factor variable
>> the population weight (expansion factor). What I want is the
>> proportion of people in each combinations of categories of the two
>> variables (net_inc and disp_inc) by row.  Do you think there is a way
>> or I have to do it in Excel ???
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> This error means that one of your variables has too many values -- it's most likely 'factor' (I assume 'double' variable means it is stored as double format?).  If you try -tab factor- you'll get the same result.
>>>
>>> 'factor' will need to be recoded into some manageable number of categories in order to include it in the -table-.
>>>
>>> If this is not the issue then please provide more information (at minimum, -describe- and -tabulate- your 3 variables of interest).>>
>
> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Pablo Bonilla wrote:
>
>>>> I need to produce a single table for each of the following years.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       year |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>>       1992 |     63,180       11.47       11.47
>>>>       1996 |     84,252       15.30       26.77
>>>>       2000 |     60,648       11.01       37.78
>>>>       2008 |    176,808       32.10       69.88
>>>>       2010 |    165,930       30.12      100.00
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>>      Total |    550,818      100.00
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As you can see I do not have to many obs in each year but when I try
>>>>
>>>> table net_inc disp_inc factor if year == 2000, row
>>>>
>>>> I get
>>>>
>>>> too many values
>>>> r(134);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> both net_inc and  disp_inc are categorical variables of five
>>>> categories each, and factor is a double variable. I wouldn't like to
>>>> do this tables in Excel but for now is the only way that I find. Do
>>>> you have any suggestions ????
>
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