Try -groups- from SSC. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Paolo Grillo, MD
> I have a categorical variable -catt (6 categories)- that 
> identifies a group of different hospitals and  I have the 
> single denomination of each hospital, as well.
> I would like to create a table where row are the Hospital 
> denomination, but sorted  for -catt.
>  i.e.
> Public Hospital
>          Hospital 1
>          Hospital 2
>          etc
> Private Hospital
>           Hospital 3
>           Hospital 4
>          etc.
> 
> The question is really more complicated since I would 
> calculate in each cell the absolute freqency and percentage 
> of a third variable with a supercol (so I can't  use -table) 
> and I would not want to split the table in different tables 
> using - bysort.
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