marginsplot and legend labels

[Jane Schweister]

Hello,
I'm attempting to graph a margins plot, but my legend labels command doesn't change the labels to what I'm specifying. Here is my code:

quietly margins, at(yrsbcs=(-2(2)10) cfarmsx = (-6, 0, 2))
marginsplot, noci scheme(sj) ytitle("Predicted chronic absence") xtitle("Years of Implementation") /*
*/legend(label(1 "lowest poverty") label(2 "Mean poverty") label(3 "Highest poverty"))

The legend for cfarmsx that appears still has the 3 values labeled as cfarmsx=6, cfarmsx=0, instead of "lowest poverty", "mean poverty", etc.

I also tried specifying labels for the values of -6, 0 and 2, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas how to give the legend the right labeling?

Thanks in advance!
Jane

[Marcos Almeida]

Please read the FAQ. There you'll find information about sharing data/command/output.

You unfortunately didn't share data to work on, This being said, you may wish to add - legend (order(1 "blablabla" 2 "blablabla")) - to the code above.

Hopefully that helps.

[Jane Schweister]

Hoooray! That worked! Thank you so much for the quick assistance, Marcos!

-Jane

[Marcos Almeida]

Thank you for the feedback and for informing you consider this thread reached a satisfactory end.

[Danny Lempert]

I found this thread after having a similar problem. The workaround in post #2 is good, but it is baffling me how no combination of legend and label can apparently do what the OP was trying to do. Almost seems like a bug, tbh.