The commands that work in Stata-16 and not in 17.

[Amir Moayeri]

Hello everyone,
I used some commands in my do-file in Stata-16 and now they do not work in Stata-17. For example:

1. table country countryID region
2. table isic growth, contents(mean emp_growth_p) by(sector_MS) format(%9.1f), if ownership==1

Any idea how I can update these 2 commands to get the same result? My dataset is attached.

[Christopher Bratt]

Table does not support character variables in Stata 17 (a surprising limitation in an update, but Stata 17 includes a new table function with lots of other featuers).

You can solve issues with character variables in tables by using

version 16:

ahead of your command.

Following up on OP's chosen title for the post:
Are there other features in version 16 that currently are not supported in version 17?

[Amir Moayeri]

Thanks a lot.
Its very helpful. However, if you want to export the table to MS-Word format by using ‘collect export’ in Stata-17, you have to update your table command.
Regarding your question, I have used Stata-17 for a few days and ‘Table’ is the only syntax that I found different by now.