Re: st: Showing all categories in legend with catplot

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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The help file for -catplot- (from SSC) mentions that it accepts other graph options, so you could use the legend() option to specify what you want, ex:

catplot q2 , over(newold) stack asyvars perc(newold) caption("Q2") ///
name(g2, replace)  legend(on order(1 "Agree" 2 "Neutral"  3 "Disagree" ) cols(1) )


- Eric

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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu


On Jul 20, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Martin Lee wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm having some problems with getting catplot to display all the
> categories in the legend for some questionnaire data where not all of
> the Likert scale response range is recorded for some of the questions. 
> 
> Example data and catplot command is below (q1 = question 1, q2 =
> question 2, newold = clinic type)
> 
> clear
> 
> inp byte(q1 q2 newold)
> 1 2 1
> 1 1 1
> 1 2 1
> 2 1 1
> 2 2 1
> 2 1 1
> 3 2 1
> 1 1 2
> 1 2 2
> 2 2 2
> 3 1 2
> 3 2 2
> end
> 
> lab def qlab 1 "Agree" 2 "Neutral" 3 "Disagree"
> lab val q1 q2 qlab
> 
> lab def nlab 1 "New" 2 "Old"
> lab val newold nlab
> 
> catplot q1 , over(newold) stack asyvars perc(newold) caption("Q1")
> name(g1, replace)
> catplot q2 , over(newold) stack asyvars perc(newold) caption("Q2")
> name(g2, replace)
> 
> And as you will see, for Q2, the legend only shows the "Agree" and
> "Neutral" responses.
> 
> How do I get all the categories to display?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation
> 
> Martin
> 
> Dr Martin Lee
> Public Health Dentist
> Clinical Director
> Community Dental Service
> 
> 
> 
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