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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 3 – Tables and other Types of Analysis
The table command Let’s use table to produce a similar table. However with the
table command we cannot ask for row or column percentages –
the table command is generally used for summary statistics.
Frequency and Totals are possible to select from this command.
1. From the menus click on Statistics.. then
Summaries, tables & tests then Tables then
Table of summary statistics (table).
2. Under the Main tab select ca2 in the Row variable: box
3. Click in the box ✓ next to Column variable and select
age_gp in the box below.
4. In the Statistics section, #1, select Frequencies from
the drop down box.
5. Under the Options tab tick ✓ Add row totals and also
tick ✓ Add column totals
6. Click on the copy button, switch to the do-file editor,
paste the command, switch back to the dialog box
and click on Submit.
7. Write a comment in the do-file to explain what the
command does.
The Stata command is:
Note: the word “contents” can be abbreviated to “c”, e.g. c(freq).
The results are:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
relation to | Age group
head | 0 to 10 11 to 19 20 to 60 61 and older Total
---------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
head | 6 296 41 343
wife/husband | 25 280 5 310
son/daughter | 503 184 31 718
mother/father | 5 1 6
other relative | 70 55 16 2 143
|
Total | 573 270 628 49 1,520
Comparison of the commands
summarize, tabulate and table
table ca2 age_gp, contents( freq ) row col
We want to put something in place of the blanks for the
cells with no data.
1. Go back to the dialog box and under the
Options tab, tick ✓ Show missing statistics
with period.
2. Click on the Main tab and tick ✓ Superrow
variables: Using the drop-down arrow, select
district
The table now shows a period (full stop) where there are no
data and there are subtables for each district.
The following is a comparison of computing averages using
summarize, tabulate and table, based on an example from
section 2.
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