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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: RE: Graphing Stacked Likert Scale With Neutral in Middle |
Date | Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:17:34 +0100 |
David gives good advice. I never got round to implementing splitting of a middle category in -slideplot- (SSC). I'd commend instead -tabplot- (SSC). For some flavours, try sysuse auto tabplot foreign rep78 tabplot foreign rep78, percent(foreign) showval tabplot rep78 foreign , percent(foreign) showval tabplot rep78 foreign , percent(foreign) showval horizontal -tabplot- conveys in a different way variations in distributions relative to the middle category. Nick On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:44 PM, David Radwin <dradwin@mprinc.com> wrote: > As described by the FAQ, Statalist members are admonished to provide the > author(s) and location of user-written programs. Although it may seem to > be an official Stata command, -catplot- is written by Nick Cox and is > available from SSC. (Members are also admonished to read the FAQ before > posting.) > > If you are willing to forgo showing the middle (neutral) category, you > might try -slideplot- (also by Nick Cox and available at SSC). If you must > show the middle category, the positives and negatives won't line up anyway > except in the rare instance when the two groups have exactly the same > proportion of neutral responses. Also, you may need to manipulate the data > first (as with -collapse- or -contract-) to get percentages or > proportions. Miles Witthaus >> I am attempting to display the answers to several survey questions based >> on 5-point Likert scales. Currently, I am using catplot which nicely >> displays the different categories and what percent lies in each: >> >> catplot rate_contract, over(gender) asyvars stack perc(hire_charge) >> blabel(bar, position(center) format(%3.1f)) >> >> However, this does not allow for a good comparison of the distribution > by >> gender. I would like to try to make the median of the neutral category > 3 >> be in the center of the graph and then have positives stacked on the > right >> and negatives to the left to allow for better comparison by gender. Is >> there anyway to do this with catplot or other graphing means? * * 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/