Working with Yes/No values in stata

[Evan Kelly]

Hello Everyone,

I'm currently working on a project where I'm comparing a yes/no variable (ecprior) to a categorical income variable (FamilyIncome). I'm trying to make a bar graph that shows what percentage of people answered "Yes" to ecprior in each income category. So far I've only been able to make a bar graph which measures the people who answered "yes" as a percentage of the whole sample, and I want to make it so it's the percentage of people who answered "Yes" in each individual category. I'm not really sure how to go about doing this is STATA, does anyone have any advice?

Thank you in advance,

Evan

[Hong Il Yoo]

Hi Evan, I'm wondering if this example is helpful: https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/g...ble/index.html.

[Nick Cox]

Please note https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#stata (data example please!) and in passing https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#spelling

This code, which you can run, should suggest something for your case. The percent foreign is just the mean of a binary variable, modulo axis labels that show numbers as you desire.

sysuse auto, clear
set scheme s1color
graph bar (mean) foreign, over(rep78) ytitle(% foreign) yla(0 0.25 "25" 0.5 "50" 0.75 "75" 1 "100", ang(h))