LIne graph...is something missing?

[Kleon Marenas]

Dear all,

I would like to ask for your help, if it is possible.

I am trying to contruct a diagram (line) with two variables.
var1= net income/population and var2=(net income-taxes)/population

So I am using the following routine:
line var1 var2 year, legend(size(medsmall))

I was thinking that the diagram would have the following format:



*source stata

But my diagram is like this....


Is something wrong?

Thank you in advance
Kleon

[Nick Cox]

Add the sort option and see if that fixes the problem.

[Kleon Marenas]

Dear Mr. Cox,

thank you very much.

Now my graph is like this:


Still I think that something is wrong...

[Nick Cox]

Perhaps you have panel or longitudinal data....

I can't say more without seeing a proper data example.