Generate quarterly date for graph as YYQQ and legend position

[jacoub sleibi]

Dear Statlisters,

Hope you can help me in this exercise about the data and legends (graph)

First, I have quarterly data (2000-2019) stored in time variable as 2000q1, 2000q2... until 2019q4, I want it to appear as 00-Q1 or 00Q1 until 19-Q4 (Year-Quarter) where the year is two digits. I want to do this in order to graph it. I attach a screen shot of a photo that I wish to adopt its time (x) label.

Second, I want the legends to appear in the right corner in 6 rows with a small margin as shown in the attached image.

Thank you

[Justin Niakamal]

You can use this as a starting point.

clear
set obs 50 

gen quarter = tq(1999-4) + _n 
format quarter %tqYY-!Qq

gen x = runiform() + _n
gen y = runiform() - .4 + _n 
twoway line x y quarter, legend(col(1) position(3) ring(0) region(lcolor(white))) xtitle("")

See

 
help legend options

[jacoub sleibi]

Many thanks Justin. That helps.
Regards