Changing the order of bars in a box plot

[Tone BE]

Hi!

I want to make a box plot of distribution of 6 different scores (score 1-6) by a grouping variable (group, values 0 and 1). Using the following syntax, I get the shown box plot in Stata.

graph box Score1 Score2 Score3 Score4 Score5 Score 6, over(group)



However, I want my box plot to compare score 1 between groups 0 and 1, then score 2 between groups 0 and 1, etc, and not first all scores for group 0 and then for group 1. So the box plot should look something like this:




I can not figure out how to manage this in Stata. Can anybody help me?

[Andrew Musau]

Your graphs are not visible. Always upload in .png format as advised in the FAQs. Here is a reproducible example that may help.

sysuse auto, clear
*REPLICATE GRAPH
replace disp = disp*20
rename (price disp weight) (Score#), addnumber(1)
set scheme s1color
graph box Score?, over(foreign) leg(row(3)) saving(gr1, replace)

*SOME TECHNIQUE 
reshape long Score, i(make) j(which)
lab def which 1 "Price" 2 "Displacement" 3 "Weight"
lab values which which
separate Score, by(foreign) 
graph box Score?, over(which) leg(order(1 "Domestic" 2 "Foreign")) saving(gr2, replace)
gr combine gr1.gph gr2.gph

Res.:

[Tone BE]

Thank you, here are the attached figures. The sketch-version is the result I am hoping for.

[Nick Cox]

See also https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0062