Saving value (N or percentage) after a tabulate command and using it in putdocx

[Anna Arntz]

Hi STATA-users,

I ´d like to write my report directly in stata with the putdocx tool and want to report simple descriptive statistics.
After using the summarize command it is possible to use the automatically saved results with `r(x)'.
Has someone experience with storing values of cells after using a tabulate command?
I´d tried it with matrix commands, but I didn´t get it.

I´ll give you a simple example, what I mean:

I want to report how many doctors are working in a single praxis.
The variable "praxis" has two values: 1 = single praxis and 2 = group praxis.

tab praxis

Pratice	Freq	Percent	Cum.
single practice	158	35,91	35,91
group practice	282	64,09	100,00
Total	440	100,00

I want to report with putdoxc, that 35,91 percent of doctors are working in a single practice.

I know the putdoxc command is like this:
putdocx text ("??? % are working in a single practice.")

How do I get the 35,91 % in the text?

Many thanks in advance!

Anna

[Anna Arntz]

I found the solution on my own:

estpost tabulate praxis
mat list e(pct)
mat b = e(pct)
scalar second=b[1,2]
putdocx text (b[1,2])
putdocx text ("% of doctors are working in a single practice.")