HELP with Stata Graphics

[Edgar Goldemer]

Dear Statalisty,

I am really struggling with generating graphs in Stata.
For the dataset below (which in complete consists of many years) I need the mean for total_dir, typI, typL, typE and n_indep per year as a vertical bar chart.

As in each line total_dir is the sum of typI, -L and -E, it would be nice if there are all are in one bar per year separated by color.

Does anyone have an idea? Thanks!

clear
input float year long permno double didown float(total_dir typI typL typE n_indep)
1996 10016  4337000  8 3 2 3 3
1996 10035 20143600  6 2 3 1 2
1996 10048  3367000  9 3 1 5 3
1996 10062 20128400 11 1 9 1 1
1996 10064 20155100 11 3 5 3 3
1996 10071 20001800  9 6 0 3 6
1996 10078     2426  7 5 1 1 5
1996 10104     6038  6 2 1 3 2
1996 10107  3362600  8 5 2 1 5
1996 10108     1459  8 5 2 1 5
end

[Wouter Wakker]

Something like this?

graph bar total_dir typI typL typE n_indep, over(year)

[Nick Cox]

graph bar typI typL typE n_indep, over(year) stack

may be a little closer to what you want. You shouldn't want to include the total twice.

[Edgar Goldemer]

Thank you! It works.

What option should I choose so that the var labels are in the legend instead of the var names?

[Nick Cox]

You can control the legend entries directly. Or collapse to a dataset of means, in which case graph bar (asis) should pick up variable labels directly.