Showing percentage on designbars

[Sonnen Blume]

Is it possible to show percent instead of count as stat on designbars:

designplot  Residence Education Wealth , stat(count) recast(hbar)

[Nick Cox]

You can show percents, but not with that syntax. You just sum 100 divided by the number of observations concerned.

sysuse auto , clear
count if !missing(foreign, rep78)
gen percent = 100/r(N)
designplot percent foreign rep78, min(1) max(2) stat(sum) recast(hbar) blabel(total, format(%2.1f)) ytitle("")

That said, you should (a) explain where designplot comes from and (b) update your version because the ? indicate a bug now fixed:

SJ-17-3 gr0061_2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for designplot
(help designplot if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/17 SJ 17(3):779
help file updated

SJ-15-2 gr0061_1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for designplot
(help designplot if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q2/15 SJ 15(2):605--606
bug fixed for Stata 14

SJ-14-4 gr0061 Design plots for graphical summary of a response given factors
(help designplot if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q4/14 SJ 14(4):975--990
produces a graphical summary of a numeric response variable
given one or more factors

There is a bug in designplot. It allows missing as an option and then ignores it.