Find the percentage of the prevalence for gender

[Anna weel]

Thank you in advance for you answers.
I try to find the mean and percentage for the gender separate in my dataset. For some reason I only get the n and not a mean or %. This is what I did and have. The code to get this must be simple, but this rookie is stuck again.

. tab b02

Sex | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
Male | 288 50.00 50.00
Female | 288 50.00 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 576 100.00

tab b08 b02

Occupational | Sex
status | Male | Total
-----------------+-----------+----------
Unemployed | 34 | 70
Student | 242 | 485
Work | 10 | 17
Work and Student | 2 | 4
-----------------+-----------+----------
Total | 288 | 576


Occupational | Sex
status | Female | Total
-----------------+-----------+----------
Unemployed | 36 | 70
Student | 243 | 485
Work | 7 | 17
Work and Student | 2 | 4
-----------------+-----------+----------
Total | 288 | 576

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Anna:
you may want to consider something along the following lines:

. use "C:\Program Files\Stata17\ado\base\a\auto.dta"
(1978 automobile data)


. tabstat price foreign, stat(N mean)

   Stats |     price   foreign
---------+--------------------
       N |        74        74
    Mean |  6165.257  .2972973
------------------------------

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[Anna weel]

Hi thanks,
Only it is still not separated by gender. I need to separate by gender for 25 variables which are a mix of binary, ordinal and continuous.
tabstat b05 b02, stat(N mean). This is what I got when I used what you suggested.

Stats | b05 b02
---------+--------------------
N | 576 576
Mean | 14.52431 .5
------------------------------

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Anna:
do you mean something like what follows?

. use "C:\Program Files\Stata17\ado\base\a\auto.dta"
(1978 automobile data)

. tabstat price mpg rep78, stat(N mean sd p25 p50 p75 min max) by(foreign)

Summary statistics: N, Mean, SD, p25, p50, p75, Min, Max
Group variable: foreign (Car origin)

 foreign |     price       mpg     rep78
---------+------------------------------
Domestic |        52        52        48
         |  6072.423  19.82692  3.020833
         |  3097.104  4.743297   .837666
         |      4184      16.5         3
         |    4782.5        19         3
         |      6234        22         3
         |      3291        12         1
         |     15906        34         5
---------+------------------------------
 Foreign |        22        22        21
         |  6384.682  24.77273  4.285714
         |  2621.915  6.611187  .7171372
         |      4499        21         4
         |      5759      24.5         4
         |      7140        28         5
         |      3748        14         3
         |     12990        41         5
---------+------------------------------
   Total |        74        74        69
         |  6165.257   21.2973  3.405797
         |  2949.496  5.785503  .9899323
         |      4195        18         3
         |    5006.5        20         3
         |      6342        25         4
         |      3291        12         1
         |     15906        41         5
----------------------------------------

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[Anna weel]

HI Carlo,
I actually have one variable (b02) that is sex Male/ female. I also have a variable that contains two age categories (need the mean for each category) and one that is simply one continues age, and many other variables that are ordinal. I have to look at the separate outcomes for male and female for all of my variables. Most of them just I only need the prevalence and percentage, but when I use the command (tab b08 b02) I only get prevalence (n) and not(%). It must be something simple to get this done, but I haven't figured it out yet.

[Anna weel]

Update: I did figured it out.
Thanks for the responses.