There's a user-written program here that may help.
. ssc inst catplot
. catplot bar happy agebin, asyvars
Nick
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Renzo Comolli
>
> I am a newbie as far as graphing is concerned. I read (what seems
> appropriate of) the [G] manual and I found a way to do what
> I want, but it
> is quite cumbersome. I believe there must be a better way.
> I would be
> grateful for any suggestion, or just the page in the manual.
>
> Here is a (made up) example
> . webuse gss1991
> . gen agebin=int(age/10)
> . tab happy agebin, colum nofreq
>
>
> general | agebin
> happiness | 1 2 3 4
> 5
> 6 7 8 | Total
> --------------+---------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> ---------------------------+----------
> very happy | 9.09 27.24 30.37 32.97
> 30.06
> 35.50 33.11 34.92 | 31.09
> pretty happy | 90.91 63.79 58.12 53.62
> 60.12
> 54.44 54.73 55.56 | 57.99
> not too happy | 0.00 8.97 11.52 13.41
> 9.82
> 10.06 12.16 9.52 | 10.92
> --------------+---------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> ---------------------------+----------
> Total | 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
> 100.00
> 100.00 100.00 100.00 | 100.00
>
>
> I would like a graph with agebin as X variable and each
> "very happy",
> "pretty happy", "not too happy" as different Y variables.
>
> >From the [G] manual I gather that if "very happy", "pretty
> happy", "not too
> happy" were different variables, then I could just do
>
> . graph twoway line very_happy pretty_happy not_too_happy agebin
>
> Is there a way to obtain the same result without having to
> actually go and
> create the table as a dataset with very_happy pretty_happy
> not_too_happy
> agebin as variables?
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