Re: st: Outputting results to a new dataset

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Mon, 2 May 2011, brad.cannell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Generally, I would like to learn the equivalent of SAS's "out=dataset" 
> option. Specifically, I'm working on descriptive tables for a report right 
> now. I'm running proportions on categorical variables, and I would like stata 
> to save those proportion estimates as a new dataset that I can quickly and 
> easily use to make graphs. In SAS I would just type:
>
> Proc Freq data=data1;
> 	tables agecat /�out = agefregs;
> run;
>
> Sorry to ask such a basic question, but I can't seem to find this information 
> with any of the google searches I've tried.

You probably want to look at -postfile- and -statsby- but they are not 
really equivalent to out=. Not worse, but certainly different.

Daniel Feenberg

> Thank you,
> Brad