Extended tabulate utility                                        (STB-10: sg12)
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     ^etab^ depvar varlist [weight] [^if^ exp] [^in^ range]^,^ tabulate_options


Description
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^etab^ tabulates the first variable in its variable list, here designated
depvar, against all the other variables in varlist, applying the desired
tabulate_options to each cross-tabulation.


Example
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^etab^ is useful when you have a categorical result (or dependent) variable,
against which you wish to compare a variety of categorical predictor (or
independent) variables.

Suppose you have a set of categorical variables from a survey:  vote (G.O.P. or
democrat), race (white or nonwhite), sex (male or female), marstat (marital
status: single, married, divorced, separated, or widowed) and housing (urban or
rural).  You wish to compare all of the variables with vote.  Using ^etab^,
one way to perform this is:

                ^etab vote race sex marstat housing, col chi2^

This command would cross-tabulate vote by race, showing column percent and
chi-square test of independence, then vote by sex, showing the same options,
then vote by marstat, showing the same options, then vote by housing, showing
the same options.

You would use this command in a situation where you need to quickly assess
the bivariate relationship between one dependent variable and a wide variety
of potential independent variables.

All of the options available for two-way tabulations are available with
this command.

Also see
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Manual: [5s] tabulate
On-line: ^help^ for ^tab^, ^xtab^

Author
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Dean H. Judson, 1013 James St., Newberg, OR 97132  503-537-0660