indicate() for multiple groups of control variables

[Andrea Colombo]

Dear all,

I use indicate() in the esttab options to suppress from the full output the coefficients of a group of control variables and to just indicate whether the models includes those controls or not (so, I use: indicate($controlgroup1).

But what if I have 2 groups of controls that I do not include immediately all at the same time? Is there a way to adapt indicate()?

Thank you for your help,

Andrea

[Andrea Colombo]

Ok, problem solved. Just for those who are still wondering, you should have something like that

local controlgroup1
local controlgroup2

eststo clear
eststo: qui reg
estadd local controlgroup1 "No"
estadd local controlgroup2 "No"
eststo: qui reg
estadd local controlgroup1 "Yes"
estadd local controlgroup2 "No"
eststo: qui reg
estadd local controlgroup1 "Yes"
estadd local controlgroup2 "Yes"

set more off
#delimit;
esttab using "",
keep(...) star(* 0.10 ** 0.05 *** 0.01) b(3)
stats(controlgroup1 controlgroup2, labels(`"control 1"' `"control 2"' ));
#delimit cr

[Ben Meiselman]

I had trouble implementing Andrea's solution because the second estadd command was not recognized. Continuing Andrea's example, my solution was:

estadd local controlgroup1 "No" : est1
estadd local controlgroup1 "Yes" : est2 est3
estadd local controlgroup2 "No" : est1 est2
estadd local controlgroup2 "Yes" : est3

[Felix Kaysers]

A simple example on how to use indicate for more than one group of control variables. Avoids the use of estadd.

use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/nlsw88.dta, clear
eststo reg1: reg wage occupation union tenure hours age race married collgrad grade
esttab reg1, indicate("Demographic control = age race married" "Education = collgrad grade")