Stata 17: How to put Confidence Intervals on either "graph bar" or "graph hbar" with Survey Data

[Michael Duarte Goncalves]

Dear Statalist Users,

Good morning. I have two quick questions to ask you :

1. How can we add some confidence intervals to the graph bar or graph hbar type please? I have made a hbar graph type, but I don't know how I can put the corresponding 95% CI here. Please check below.
2. How can we reduce the size of the blue-navy part of the graph below, and thus increase the space for the "real" graph, please?

      graph hbar (mean) belage13 [pw = k_gewicht]             ///                      
      ,over(restricted_field) over(bachelor_hes) nofill       ///        
      blabel(bar,position(outside) size(tiny) format(%15.2f)) ///

Thank you in advance for your answer and help.

Best,

--
Michael Duarte Gonçalves

[Nick Cox]

Often asked here. In essence, graph bar and graph hbar are no use for your purpose. You need to move to twoway bar to do what you're asking; in fact I would commend just a scatter plot of means with (capped or uncapped) spikes.

There are community-contributed commands. My personal favourite strategy entails none of those, but statsby.
https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0045

[Michael Duarte Goncalves]

Dear Nick,

Thank you for your answer and suggestions!

There are community-contributed commands. My personal favourite strategy entails none of those, but statsby.
https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0045

Thank you also for the paper! I will read it and if I have any questions I will come back and ask them again on Statalist.

Best wishes,

--
Michael Duarte Gonçalves

[Nick Cox]

Just to note that the syntax of ci has changed since that paper. You now need a subcommand too.