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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 3 – Tables and other Types of Analysis
Notice that the number of decimals is not uniform. We can fix
that with the tabstat command.
1. From the menus click on Statistics then
Summaries, tables & tests then Tables then
Table of summary statistics
The table - Tables of summary statistics dialog box opens.
2. Press the Reset button to clear the boxes. Under
the Main tab select district in the Row variable:
box
3. Click in the box ✓ next to Column variable and
select quart in the box below.
4. In the Statistics section, #1, select Mean from the
drop down box.
5. In the box to the right specify the variable to use for
the Mean statistic - cprod_ae
We would also like to see the minimum and maximum
values.
7. Click on the drop down box next to #2 and scroll
down to Maximum and select that statistic. For the
variable select cprod_ae
8. Click on the drop down box next to #3 and scroll
down to Minimum and select that statistic. For the
variable select cprod_ae
9. Under the Options tab check ✓ Add row totals
and also check ✓ Add column totals
10. To format the numbers, check ✓ next Override
display format for numbers in cells. Click on
the Create button to the right of this box.
11. In the “Create a display format” dialog box ,
check ✓“Customize format” and change the
contents to read: %11.2fc. The Help format...
button shows different formats that can be specified.
This format says to use a width of 11 with 2
decimals. (fc) means fixed format with a comma.
Click on Ok.
12. Click on the copy button, switch to the do-file
editor, paste the command, switch back to the
dialog box and click on Ok.
For each district, the first row is the mean, the second row
is the maximum and the third row is the minimum.
The three Stata commands are:
92