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| From | Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: ordering of categories when cross-tabulating |
| Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:08:28 +1100 |
Dear Ana, I would suggest encoding the string variable as a numeric variable with value labels. That way you can order them however you like, and it's more compatible with various commands. See -help encode- and also [U] 23.2 Categorical string variables. Regards, Phil On 19/10/2010, at 10:51 PM, Vitorino, Maria Ana wrote: > Dear Statalist users, > > I'm trying to produce a simple cross-tabulation table with gender on the rows and how important people think a program X is on the columns. > The categories for the columns are " Very important", "Somewhat important", "Not Important" > > Is there a way I can guarantee that the order in which the column categories are displayed are (from left to right) " Very important", "Somewhat important", "Not Important". > Stata usually orders them alphabetically but I'm interested in a specific ordering. > > Can this be done? > Thanks! > Ana > > > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/