Coloring area in tsline graph

[Rachel Sleeps]

Hi, I got this need looking graph I made with

tsline

here:

It shows the number of insolvencies in Germany over time (plus a 3 month moving average). I want to color in the time span between August 9th 2007 and December 31st 2010. I tried everything I could with

xline()

- but I am looking for a constant shading...any ideas?

This is basically my starting point:

tsline insolvencies, xline(`date("08/09/2007")) xline (`date("12/31/2012"))

Thank you! /R

[Nick Cox]

Discussed in detail at http://www.stata-journal.com/article...article=gr0067

That article is behind a paywall. It's worth every dollar you might pay for it, but for the impecunious here is one method, not necessarily the best, but quite easy to understand and implement:

webuse grunfeld, clear 
tsline mvalue if company == 1
gen upper = 6240
twoway bar upper year if inrange(year, 1939, 1945), bcolor(gs12) || tsline mvalue if company == 1 , legend(off) ytitle(mvalue)

Incidentally the method of http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.h...iclenum=gr0030 might improve your time axis labels.

[Rachel Sleeps]

Wow, that was quick! Fortunately, my university has access to the Stata Journal - I will give it a read! Thank you!