Bar chrat for categorical variables

[Wafa Ebrahim]

Hello,

I'm using STATA 12

I successfully used the catplot command to compare the percentage of patients with obesity in females & males ( graph is attached)
the command was:
catplot gender obese, percent (gender) asyvars recast (bar)

I want the graph to include the percentage in total ( male, female, total). I've also included in the attachment the way I want the graph to look.

Any hints on how to do that?

[Dave Airey]

Maybe you can generate another variable total = male + female to use in the plot, rather than looking for an option that would generate it for you?

[Nick Cox]

I'm travelling right now and can not give full support to -catplot- (SSC) but you can call up the options of -graph bar- to show totals.

[Wafa Ebrahim]

I'm travelling right now and can not give full support to -catplot- (SSC) but you can call up the options of -graph bar- to show totals.

Thank you Nick, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to do it by graph bar.I want the outcome to look like the following graph ( with percentage in each categories an total)

[Wafa Ebrahim]

Maybe you can generate another variable total = male + female to use in the plot, rather than looking for an option that would generate it for you?

Thank you Dave, I tried doing that but it didn't work

[Oded Mcdossi]

Here is one way to add the total to the graph, I do it by duplicating the data and treat the new add observations as the total group. Just be aware to drop the added observations after producing the chart.

sysuse auto, clear
su price
g high_p=price>r(mean)
g id=_n
expand 2
bys id: g d2=_n
replace foreign=2 if d2==2
la de origin 2 "Total", add


catplot high_p foreign, percent (foreign) asyvars recast (bar)

[Marcos Almeida]

I gather that, if you generete a variable with the percentage, than you can generate it also "by" gender. The overall percentage would become your "total". The graphic could than be created with direct bar graph commands.

[Wafa Ebrahim]

Here is one way to add the total to the graph, I do it by duplicating the data and treat the new add observations as the total group. Just be aware to drop the added observations after producing the chart.

sysuse auto, clear
su price
g high_p=price>r(mean)
g id=_n
expand 2
bys id: g d2=_n
replace foreign=2 if d2==2
la de origin 2 "Total", add


catplot high_p foreign, percent (foreign) asyvars recast (bar)

Thank you very much Oded, it worked