increasing the number of digits displayed in output window

[tim bradshaw]

Hi there
I have the following problem with the frequency table output attached. All of the values for CodeUC are in fact different from each other, but they are all made to look the same in the frequency table (2.50e+07). Is there a way to modify the settings to display the full values?
Thanks

[William Lisowski]

Assign an appropriate format to CodeUC.

. set obs 1
number of observations (_N) was 0, now 1

. generate x = 12345670

. tab x

          x |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   1.23e+07 |          1      100.00      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |          1      100.00

. format x %10.0f

. tab x

          x |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   12345670 |          1      100.00      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |          1      100.00

[tim bradshaw]

Ah yes, thanks. The format was previously %12.0g, which displayed the longform number in the data editor window but not in the results window. I changed the format to %12.0f and it now displays longform in both.
Thanks again

[William Lisowski]

Let me add one possibly extraneous piece of advice. It appears to me that you are storing a numeric code as a number rather than as a string. Given your choice of 12 digits for the format, if indeed you are storing codes longer than 7 digits it is imperative that they are stored in a long or double variable and not a float, as the following example demonstrates.

. clear

. input float x double y

             x           y
  1. 123456780 123456780
  2. 123456781 123456781
  3. 123456782 123456782
  4. 123456783 123456783
  5. 123456784 123456784
  6. 123456785 123456785
  7. 123456786 123456786
  8. 123456787 123456787
  9. 123456788 123456788
 10. 123456789 123456789
 11. end

. format x y %12.0f

. list, clean

               x           y  
  1.   123456784   123456780  
  2.   123456784   123456781  
  3.   123456784   123456782  
  4.   123456784   123456783  
  5.   123456784   123456784  
  6.   123456784   123456785  
  7.   123456784   123456786  
  8.   123456784   123456787  
  9.   123456784   123456788  
 10.   123456792   123456789  

.

More information on this is in the output of help data types in the section on precision of numeric storage types.

My apologies if you've already considered this issue, but precision issues are a common source of problems on Statalist.

[Erwin Cabacungan]

How do you increase the number of digits displayed. In the example below, it will be for Total.

Thank you.