Display Mexican state names usin spmap

[Lucie Piaser]

Hello everyone,

I'm using spmap from SSC in Stata 13.1. I am currently working on Mexico. My goal is to display the Gini index for every 2457 Mexican municipalities while outlining the Mexican states. I obtained it using the command:

spmap giniE using mexico1_xy, id(id) fcolor(Oranges) ocolor(none ..) title("Education Inequality in Mexico by Municipalities""in 2015") ndlab("Missing")
ndfcolor(gs7) legend(position(1) region(lcolor(purple) fcolor(white)) title("Gini Index", size(*0.4))) polygon(data(mexico_state_xy) osize(*0.85))

Now I want to display on this map the name of the 32 Mexican states which are in the "mexico_state_xy" file. I was able to display the municipalities' name with the command:

spmap giniE using mexico1_xy, id(id) label(xcoord(x_c) ycoord(y_c) label(DES_MUN)) fcolor(Oranges) ocolor(none ..) title("Education Inequality in Mexico by Municipalities""in 2015") ndlab("Missing") ndfcolor(gs7) legend(position(1) region(lcolor(purple) fcolor(white)) title("Gini Index", size(*0.4))) polygon(data(mexico_state_xy) osize(*0.85))

but unfortunatly I can't find how to display the state names. What is the right command to do so ?

Thanks a lot

[Lucie Piaser]

I finally found my answer:

spmap gini using mexico1_xy, id(id) label(data(mexico_state) xcoord(x_c) ycoord(y_c) label(NOM_ENT) length(30) size(vsmall)) fcolor(Oranges) ocolor(none ..) ///
ndlab("Missing") ndfcolor(gs7) ndocolor(none ..) legend(position(1) region(lcolor(black) fcolor(white)) title("Income Gini", size(*0.4))) /// 
polygon(data(mexico_state_xy) osize(*0.85))

[Marc Del Angel]

Hi Lucie,
I am trying to use Stata to map Mexican municipalities, where did you get the mexico1_xy and corresponding x_c and y_c files ? I downloaded a shapefile from https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/da...ipalities-2012, but they don't have those files. Thanks !