Graph editing

[Daniel Kosoko]

Hello Statalist!

I am using the graph below as part of my exploratory data analysis in a cross-sectional study. I've tried toggling different buttons to make the graph clearer. I want to the x-axis to take the numbers (1-12) used in labelling the industries and provide a legend that lists what industry each number represents. Any tips?

[Marcos Almeida]

I believe you don’t need any legend at all in the x axis, considering the same information was written above the bars. On a slightly different note, the graph could have only the legend in the axis, with a 45-degree display.

[Daniel Kosoko]

Thank you Marcos. Alternatively, how can I remove the labels from the x-axis and leave it blank since the labels above the bars are clear?

[Andrew Musau]

You ask for advice on how to change a part of the graph command, yet you do not show the command. Note that you have a categorical axis and not an x-axis.

graph bar myvar1, over(myvar2, label(nolab))

[Daniel Kosoko]

Thanke you Andrew. Pardon me, the code I used is the following

  graph bar (mean) div_prop, over(industry) blabel(group, box) ytitle(Average Proportion of EM Directors)
>  title(Average Proportion of EM Directors for FTSE 100 Firms) subtitle(by Industry) legend(on)

[Marcos Almeida]

Andrew already gave an insightful advice. As an additional note, I recommend to exclude the legend, since it is already explained in the Y-axis.

[Nick Cox]

I'd use graph hbar here. I also have to ask if the ordering of categories has any rationale.

You can show us the numbers by (for example)

tab industry, su(div_prop)