Formatting of histogram

[Tamara Sharp]

I am new to using stata to produce graphics and just wanted to get advice on the layout of a histogram produced by the hist command, using the data above.

I plot data using the command:

hist var, freq

The plot produced has staggered gaps between bars, for reasons that I'm not completely sure. Is this a formatting issue, or am I missing something in the data?

Below I have copied the produced figure and also the data itself.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

var Freq. Percent Cum.

11 1,406 20.09 20.09
12 1,385 19.79 39.88
13 977 13.96 53.84
14 871 12.45 66.29
15 569 8.13 74.42
16 388 5.54 79.97
17 277 3.96 83.92
18 230 3.29 87.21
19 174 2.49 89.70
20 129 1.84 91.54
21 113 1.61 93.16
22 95 1.36 94.51
23 82 1.17 95.68
24 72 1.03 96.71
25 40 0.57 97.28
26 42 0.60 97.89
27 29 0.41 98.30
28 22 0.31 98.61
29 24 0.34 98.96
30 14 0.20 99.16
31 9 0.13 99.29
32 8 0.11 99.40
33 13 0.19 99.59
34 8 0.11 99.70
35 4 0.06 99.76
36 7 0.10 99.86
37 6 0.09 99.94
38 4 0.06 100.00

Total 6,998 100.00

[Nick Cox]

You need the discrete option.

[Tamara Sharp]

You need the discrete option.

Thank you Nick, yes that completely solves the issue. Really appreciate the reply.