st: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram

["Antonio Rodriguez Andres" <Antonio.Andres@emu.edu.tr>]

Imagine I want to create a histogram for a variable such as job satisfaction with 5 levels. 

histogram jobsatisfaction, discrete percent xlabel (1 "Completely satisfied" 2 "Satisfied"....etc
the idea is to plot the different bars for different levels of job satisfaction with different colors
Antonio

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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:19 PM
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Subject: st: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram

Antonio,

I am not sure I understand your situation, but it sounds like instead of a histogram with 2 bars, you want a graph of proportions. Try -catplot- (Nick Cox, available from SSC), perhaps with the -asyvars- option to show different colors.

David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner- 
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Andres
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:43 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: to change bar colors in a histogram
> 
> Dear Stata users
> 
> I am trying to create a histogram for the proportion of the population 
> having mental health problems (Yes or No). The mental health measure 
> is binary. I want to create a simple histogram with the bar color 
> different for each response Yes or No. That is my Stata code
> 
> histogram MENTAL, discrete bcolor(blue) barw(0.5) addlabel percent 
> xlabel
> (1
> "Yes" 0 "NO") title("Mental Health Problems: Total Population")
> 
> Any advice
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Antonio


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