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Re: st: xlabel questions in graph bar options.


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: xlabel questions in graph bar options.
Date   Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:14:13 +0000

What you are describing is inevitable with a string variable. How else
would Stata order string labels?

You just need to -encode- a string variable using pre-defined labels.
Then use the resulting numeric variable. See -help encode-.

Nick

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Amadou DIALLO <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Is there any way to label my x-axis in a non alphabetical order?
> Basically, I want to graph, putting "National" first, but Stata seems
> to be ranking the labels alphabetically.
> 1 "National" 2 "No Education" 3 "Primary" 4 "Secondary" 5 "Tertiary
> And Higher" 6 "Dk"
> DK is appearing first followed by National, etc.
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