In this post we'll have a look at the table command which can be used to visualise summary statistics by tabulating variables against one another. The contents option is used to specify table cell contents.
sysuse nlsw88, clear
table industry, contents(mean wage count wage)Here we are tabulating industry to get an idea of how the wage variable varies across industries. As cell contents we plot the mean and the observation count per industry.
In a similar fashion we can have a look how wages differ across race:
table race, content(mean wage count wage) col
Here we can see that less that in this sample members of the other race have the highest wage levels.