Missing Axis Labels only for some Graphs

[Sam McCaw]

Dear All

I am working with a simple panel dataset of 40 individuals' characteristics over 2000 to 2010.

I am creating a simple scatter graph of an x-variable (x1) and year (year) by individual-ID (indid) using the code below.

The graph works just fine and all the aspects of the graph looks correct, EXCEPT that the x-axis labels only appear for the last 7 individuals.

I can manually add in the x-axis for the 33 other individuals using graph editor, right clicking on the x-axis and choosing the "Show" option.

Is there a way to directly instruct STATA to show all the x-axis values for all 40 individuals?

I am enclosing the STATA code and data below.

Thanks!

SAM

scatter x1 year, by(indid) ///
    yscale(range(0 50)) ///
    xscale(range(2000 2010)) ///
    ytitle("Y-Axis", placement (nw)) ///
    xtitle("Year") ///
    xlabel(2000(2)2010, valuelabel grid) ///
    ylabel(0(10)50)

The data is below:

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input byte indid int year float x1
 1 2000   20
 1 2001 23.1
 1 2002 24.9
 1 2003   25
 1 2004 25.6
 1 2005 25.6
 1 2006 25.8
 1 2007 25.9
 1 2008   26
 1 2009 26.1
 1 2010 26.4
 2 2000 26.4
 2 2001 26.4
 2 2002 26.6
 2 2003 26.8
 2 2004   27
 2 2005   27
 2 2006 27.8
 2 2007   28
 2 2008   28
 2 2009 28.4
 2 2010 28.6
 3 2000 28.8
 3 2001 28.9
 3 2002   29
 3 2003 29.4
 3 2004 29.7
 3 2005 29.9
 3 2006   30
 3 2007   30
 3 2008   30
 3 2009 30.7
 3 2010 30.8
 4 2000   31
 4 2001   31
 4 2002   31
 4 2003 31.3
 4 2004 31.9
 4 2005 32.1
 4 2006 32.2
 4 2007 32.4
 4 2008 32.4
 4 2009 32.8
 4 2010   33
 5 2000 33.2
 5 2001 33.5
 5 2002 33.6
 5 2003 33.9
 5 2004 33.9
 5 2005   34
 5 2006   34
 5 2007   34
 5 2008   34
 5 2009 34.1
 5 2010 34.3
 6 2000 34.3
 6 2001 34.3
 6 2002 34.4
 6 2003 34.5
 6 2004 34.5
 6 2005 34.6
 6 2006 34.7
 6 2007 34.7
 6 2008 34.7
 6 2009 34.8
 6 2010 34.8
 7 2000 34.9
 7 2001   35
 7 2002   35
 7 2003   35
 7 2004   35
 7 2005   35
 7 2006   35
 7 2007   35
 7 2008   35
 7 2009   35
 7 2010 35.4
 8 2000 35.4
 8 2001 35.4
 8 2002 35.5
 8 2003 35.6
 8 2004 35.7
 8 2005 35.7
 8 2006 35.9
 8 2007   36
 8 2008   36
 8 2009   36
 8 2010   36
 9 2000 36.1
 9 2001 36.1
 9 2002 36.1
 9 2003 36.2
 9 2004 36.3
 9 2005 36.4
 9 2006 36.4
 9 2007 36.4
 9 2008 36.6
 9 2009 36.8
 9 2010 36.8
10 2000 36.8
end

Thanks.

SAM

[Scott Merryman]

You need to use the -ixaxes- sub option within the by() statement

scatter x1 year, by(indid, ixaxes) ///
    yscale(range(0 50)) ///
    xscale(range(2000 2010)) ///
    ytitle("Y-Axis", placement (nw)) ///
    xtitle("Year") ///
    xlabel(2000(2)2010, valuelabel grid) ///
    ylabel(0(10)50)

[Sam McCaw]

Many thanks, Scott. Worked perfectly!