st: stripplot not stacking correctly

[Cody Cook <cookcfc@gmail.com>]

Hi stata list,

I’m having problems with stripplot from SSC

I'm trying to create something like this for my dataset: 
http://imgur.com/wt9yZTx

And this is what I'm getting: 
http://imgur.com/4OIRmwT

I'm having trouble figure out what I'm doing wrong. Here's the relevant code that I'm using: 
stripplot state_avg, stack over(state) height(.5) ms(Sh) msize(*3.5) width(.01) mlabel(state) mlabpos(0) ysc(off) plotregion(lstyle(none)) 

Some things about my dataset 
-- It's got about 10,000 obs of tax rates for different counties in different states, disaggregated further by time (%tm)
-- state_avg is the average across state counties and all years/months of observations. 1 number per state. 
-- state is just the state abbreviation. It's repeated a lot, since it goes state -- county -- date -- etc etc 

Any thoughts?


I think I could fix this if, instead of state_avg (which has a ton of repeats since it's broken up by county and date), I could create a varlist with only 50 observations that contain the abbrev and the state_avg for that state. I'm not sure how to do this. In general, I struggle to make any varlist that's shorter than the total number of obs in my dataset.

Best,

Cody Cook 
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