Re: st: n-way tabulation

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Another possibility might be to use -xcontract- (downloadable from SSC), 
which abbreviates Joseph's solution, as in

xcontract religion gender age ethnicity, list(, noobs separator(0))

The -xcontract- package can also produce an output dataset (or resultsset) 
containing the table cells for future use, as in

xcontract religion gender age ethnicity, saving(mycells1, replace)

which creates a Stata dataset (or resultsset) in -mycells1.dta- with 1 
observation per table cell. This resultsset can then be processed in any 
way the user likes, to produce plots and tables.

I hope this helps.

Roger


At 13:48 01/11/2005, Bill Gould wrote:

> Lawrence Hanser <lhanser@gmail.com> asked
>
> > Is it possible to do greater than two-way cross-tabulations?  For
> > example, if I have religion (10 categories), gender (2 categories),
> > age (4 categories), and ethnicity (6 categories), is there a simple
> > command to get the counts for each of the 480 cells?
>
> Joseph Coveney <jcoveney@bigplanet.com> suggested
>
>         . preserve
>         . contract religion gender age ethnicity
>         . list, noobs separator(0)
>         . restore
>
> Anotehr possibility is
>
>         . table age ethnicity gender, by(religion)
>
> -table- produces tabular output, which Lawrence may prefer.  -table-, however,
> does not generalize beyond 4-way tables, as Joseph's solution does.

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