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Re: st: Too many values error
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Pablo Bonilla <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Too many values error
Date
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:38:15 -0400
Yes, you are right, it is variable with a lot of values. In my data
base each obs in each year is an individual and the factor variable
the population weight (expansion factor). What I want is the
proportion of people in each combinations of categories of the two
variables (net_inc and disp_inc) by row. Do you think there is a way
or I have to do it in Excel ???
Thanks, Eric.
Best,
PB
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
>
> This error means that one of your variables has too many values -- it's most likely 'factor' (I assume 'double' variable means it is stored as double format?). If you try -tab factor- you'll get the same result.
>
> 'factor' will need to be recoded into some manageable number of categories in order to include it in the -table-.
>
> If this is not the issue then please provide more information (at minimum, -describe- and -tabulate- your 3 variables of interest).
>
> - Eric
>
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
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> +979.845.6754
>
> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Pablo Bonilla wrote:
>
>> Dear Stata list,
>>
>> I need to produce a single table for each of the following years.
>>
>>
>> year | Freq. Percent Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>> 1992 | 63,180 11.47 11.47
>> 1996 | 84,252 15.30 26.77
>> 2000 | 60,648 11.01 37.78
>> 2008 | 176,808 32.10 69.88
>> 2010 | 165,930 30.12 100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>> Total | 550,818 100.00
>>
>>
>> As you can see I do not have to many obs in each year but when I try
>>
>> table net_inc disp_inc factor if year == 2000, row
>>
>> I get
>>
>> too many values
>> r(134);
>>
>>
>> both net_inc and disp_inc are categorical variables of five
>> categories each, and factor is a double variable. I wouldn't like to
>> do this tables in Excel but for now is the only way that I find. Do
>> you have any suggestions ????
>>
>> As always, thank you so much.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> ----
>>
>> Pablo Bonilla
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