Detailed summary statistics in Stata

The command for basic summary statistics in Stata is summarize var1, detail, with var1 replaced by your variable name (or, as you'll see, more than one variable name). 

Let's see this code in action. Copy and paste the following code into your Stata command window:

webuse census13
summarize brate, detail

Here, we've called up Stata's built-in dataset and asked it to provide detailed summary statistics for the birthrate variable.

If you need basic summary statistics for more than one variable, simply list all of the variables after the summarize command:

summarize brate pop, detail

With this command, you get detailed descriptive statistics on two variables at the same time.

Let's say you wanted basic summary statistics on birthrate and population by region. You would use the following code:

by region, sort: summarize brate pop, detail

As you can see, this approach gives you basic summary statistics sorted by region.

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