STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 4 – Tables and Graphs, Survey estimation
Using Excel to create columns
from the table
Another method is to copy the table from the Results window
into Excel. Then use the method to convert text to columns
that is provided in Excel. The left most cells in each column
will contain the text for the entire row. Click on “Data”, then
“Text to Columns”. The “Text to Columns Wizard will start.
Follow the instructions in the wizard to divide the text into
columns. Upon completion of the wizard, block the columns,
copy and paste into your word processor. The table will be
now in a Table in the word processor where you can easily
manipulate the widths and other formatting as required. Below
is an example of output from the Results window converted to
columns in Excel and pasted into Word.
Relation to head 0 to 10 11 to 19 20 to 60 61 and older Total
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ---------head
0 6 296 41 343
0 1.75 86.3 11.95 100
0 2.22 47.13 83.67 22.57
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ---------wife/husband
0 25 280 5 310
0 8.06 90.32 1.61 100
0 9.26 44.59 10.2 20.39
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ---------son/daugher
503 184 31 0 718
70.06 25.63 4.32 0 100
87.78 68.15 4.94 0 47.24
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ---------mother/father
0 0 5 1 6
0 0 83.33 16.67 100
0 0 0.8 2.04 0.39
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ---------other
relative 70 55 16 2 143
48.95 38.46 11.19 1.4 100
12.22 20.37 2.55 4.08 9.41
-------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------
Total 573 270 628 49 1,520
37.7 17.76 41.32 3.22 100
100 100 100 100 100
Exercise 4.1. Select another table from your Session3.SMCL file. Use all
three methods to copy another table from your log file into a
word processor.
Graphs The process to copy output to a word processor is basically the
same for Graphics, such as pie charts and histograms, but there
is more flexibility in the ways to save the file, along with more
difficulties in getting just the look you want. As an example,
we will look at the distribution of cashew tree ownership
across households in the Mozambique data, using a histogram.
Open a new do file and place the requisite information at the
top, e.g.
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