Don't feel too much chagrin. I don't understand very
well what -catplot- can and can't do myself. The
main reason for that: it is essentially a wrapper for
some calls to -graph-, and I'm still discovering the
potentialities of what was introduced in -graph- in Stata 8.
For anyone watching, there is some discussion of these issues
in
FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating percent summary variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and S. Merryman
11/05 How can I create variables containing percent
summaries?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/percentvars.html
SJ-4-2 gr0004 . Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical and compositional data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q2/04 SJ 4(2):190--215 (no commands)
discusses graphical possibilities for categorical and
compositional data
Nick
[email protected]
David Radwin
> Nick,
>
> Thank you very much for this solution. As promised, I am delighted,
> but also slightly chagrined that I couldn't figure it out myself.
>
> So I revise my earlier suggestion for the 2nd edition of Michael N.
> Mitchell's Visual Guide to Stata Graphics to:
>
> Please include some examples employing user-written programs, such as
> Nick Cox's -catplot- and -tabplot- (available at SSC), for graphing
> categorical data.
>
> David
>
> >
> >Your graph can be produced directly by
> >
> >. sysuse auto, clear
> >. catplot hbar foreign rep78, percent(foreign) asyvars
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