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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 3 – Tables and other Types of Analysis
The tabstat command
4. For the egen function box, scroll down and highlight
Row total .
5. In the box for Generate variable as type: select
integer
6. Click on the egen function argument - Variables
box type h64*
4. Click on the copy button, switch to the do-file editor,
paste the command, switch back to the dialog box and
click on Ok.
The Stata command is:
egen ncrops = rowtotal(h64*)
Now you can do a frequencies on the new variable:
tabulate ncrops
Two households had increased sales on all crops (ncrop =
8), 136 households had no increased sales on any of the
crops (ncrop = 0).
C. What is the distribution of the crops?
For this question we can use the summarize command, but
we could also use the tabstat command:
1. From the menus click on Statistics.. then
Summaries, tables & tests then Tables then
Table of summary statistics (tabstat).
2. Under the Main tab type h64* in the Variables: box
3. Under “Statistics to display” place a tick in the
first box and select Sum as the statistic.
4. Under the Options tab in the Use as Columns
change to Statistics.
5. Click on the copy button, switch to the do-file editor,
paste the command, switch back to the dialog box and
click on Ok .
The Stata command is:
tabstat h64*, statistics( sum ) columns(statistics)
You see all the h64* variables with a count of the number
of cases where yes was specified. Manioc (h64b) was the
most frequent crop for which households had increased
sales (115), sorghum (h64g) was the least (14).
2) Multiple response Multiple Response: The other type of multiple response
question is where the survey question asks the respondent
to "list up to xx choices" from a set of ten choices. If four
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