Recommendations: Looking at rowmean variable and dichotomous variable?

[Vanessa Ojeda]

I am trying to look at a group of variables that make up a construct: "Diversity Experiences." I want to look at this construct by those students who indicated they are white and students of color (my dichotomous var). What is the best way to run this data in STATA? Would I run this by individual questions within the construct "Diversity experiences" or is there a better way to look at the mean of the group of variables by my race binary??

Ex: "diversity experiences" have 6 questions within this construct. Racebinary: 0=white; 1=SoC

I want to look at the mean of each of the 6 questions by race

Is the best approach to do: "mean diversityexperiences1 if racebinary==0" and again "mean diversityexperiences1 if racebinary==1" ??

[Joseph Coveney]

Maybe something like

tabstat diversityexperiences?, by(racebinary) statistics(mean)

Take a look at the command's helpfile for more information and tweaks.

help tabstat

[Vanessa Ojeda]

Thank you Joseph Coveney . I am going through my old messages and realizing I never thanked you for your helpful answer! Thanks again!