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st: RE: Table of relative frequencies


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Table of relative frequencies
Date   Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:01:55 -0000

Consider -groups- from SSC. (There was some discussion in 

SJ-3-4  pr0011  . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: Problems with tables,
Part II
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
J. Cox
        Q4/03   SJ 3(4):420--439                                 (no
commands)
        reviews three user-written commands (tabcount, makematrix,
        and groups) as different approaches to tabulation problems

which is accessible to all under the Stata Journal's moving window.) 

Some examples follow my signature. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. groups rep78, show(p)

  +-----------------+
  | rep78   Percent |
  |-----------------|
  |     1      2.90 |
  |     2     11.59 |
  |     3     43.48 |
  |     4     26.09 |
  |     5     15.94 |
  +-----------------+

. groups rep78, show(p) showhead(%)

  +---------------+
  | rep78       % |
  |---------------|
  |     1    2.90 |
  |     2   11.59 |
  |     3   43.48 |
  |     4   26.09 |
  |     5   15.94 |
  +---------------+

. groups rep78 if foreign, show(p) showhead(%)

  +---------------+
  | rep78       % |
  |---------------|
  |     3   14.29 |
  |     4   42.86 |
  |     5   42.86 |
  +---------------+

kokootchke

I have a data set that contains bonds issued by a given country at
different points in time, with information about each bond. For
instance, one observation would look like:

country issuedate year issuer maturity yield currency amount
Mexico  09May98   1998 BXN    10       8.34  USD      250

I need to create lots of tables with summary statistics such as:

table country, c(m yield)

However, one type of table I don't know how to create quickly is one
with relative frequencies (and I'm always angry with the -table- command
because it doesn't seem to allow for tables of relative frequencies,
unlike -tab-... but I don't like -tab-!). What I want is a table that
gives me the percentage of bonds (observations) within a given country
that have maturities greater than, say, 3 years. So, I wish there was a
command that looked like:

table country, c(relfreq), if maturity>= 3

and produce a table like:

Argentina   26.7%
Brazil      37.8%
Mexico      49.3%
Zimbabwe    17.5%
...

I know that 

table country if maturity>= 3

will give me the # of bonds (absolute frequency) that meet the condition
(maturity>= 3)... but I want this number in percentage terms. 

Is there any easy way of doing this?


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