Nick,
Thanks so much for that. The graph looks very good now.
Cheers,
Ramani
Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> You have a variable -Years- with values 1 to 5.
>
> You need a variable (-years-, say) with values
> 1980 1985 1990 1995 2002.
>
> You could do this some simple but tedious way
> like
>
> gen years = 1980 if Years == 1
> replace years = 1985 if Years == 2
> replace years = 1990 if Years == 3
> replace years = 1995 if Years == 4
> replace years = 2002 if Years == 5
>
> or you could do something like
>
> gen years = Years
> recode years 1=1980 2=1985 3=1990 4=1995 5=2002
>
> or you could do something like
>
> gen years = cond(Years < 5, 1975 + (5 * Years), 2002)
>
> or you could do something like
>
> gen year = real(word("1980 1985 1990 1995 2002", Years))
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Ramani Gunatilaka
>
> > Dear Nick,
> > Thanks so much. -ysc(titlegap(1))- worked a treat.
> > I take your point 3 about the gap between 1995 and 2002. The
> > thing is, those are my survey years, so there's no data in
> > between. If I can trouble you further, can you please tell me
> > how I can plot time literally for this kind of data?
>
> > Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Comments on various levels:
> > >
> > > 1. In any paper I was reviewing or editing I
> > > would strongly suggest changing labels like
> > > 10.0 to 50.0 to 10 to 50, if that is the
> > > problem. The extra ".0" is not informative
> > > or decorative.
> > >
> > > 2. Try the option -ysc(titlegap())-.
> > >
> > > 3. As in point #1 I would always recommend
> > > plotting time literally for this kind
> > > of data. Your last gap of
> > > 7 years should not be plotted as equivalent
> > > to the other gaps of 5 years. Many texts
> > > on graphics make this point, most recently
> > > Howard Wainer's "Graphic discovery",
> > > Princeton U.P. 2005.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > Ramani Gunatilaka
> > >
> > > > I am trying to plot income shares by quintile for five
> > survey years.
> > > > My problem is that the graph that the following command
> > > > generates places the y-axis title too close to the y-axis so
> > > > that it gets super-imposed on the axis labels and makes the
> > > > graph looks messy.
> > > > I have looked at the graphics manual and experimented with
> > > > the options graphregion, marginstyle, position, ring and
> > > > justification, but have not been able to solve the problem.
> > >
> > > > twoway (line Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4
> > > > Quintile5 Year), ylabel(0(10.0)50.0) ytitle( "Share of Income
> > > > %") xlabel(1 "1980" 2 "1985" 3 "1990" 4 "1995" 5 "2002")
> > > > xtitle( "Year" ) leg(rows(1))
>
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