tsline command with maximum observations

[Luana Goveia]

Dear Stata community,

I am running the tsline command for a graph of average male unemployment by country over time. I have 24 countries, but when I run the command, tsline gives me the 24 lines with the 24 countries, but the "legend" area has an output of a maximum of 15 countries. So my graph has the 24 correct lines, but the legend had 15 countries and places 2 countries together.

The command I used:

collapse m_unemployed_at m_unemployed_be m_unemployed_cz m_unemployed_dk m_unemployed_ee m_unemployed_el m_unemployed_es m_unemployed_fi m_unemployed_fr m_unemployed_hu m_unemployed_ie m_unemployed_is m_unemployed_it m_unemployed_lt m_unemployed_lu m_unemployed_lv m_unemployed_nl m_unemployed_no m_unemployed_pl m_unemployed_pt m_unemployed_se m_unemployed_si m_unemployed_sk m_unemployed_uk, by(wave)

tsset wave

twoway (tsline m_unemployed_at m_unemployed_be m_unemployed_cz m_unemployed_dk m_unemployed_ee m_unemployed_el m_unemployed_es m_unemployed_fi m_unemployed_fr m_unemployed_hu m_unemployed_ie m_unemployed_is m_unemployed_it m_unemployed_lt m_unemployed_lu m_unemployed_lv m_unemployed_nl m_unemployed_no m_unemployed_pl m_unemployed_pt m_unemployed_se m_unemployed_si m_unemployed_sk m_unemployed_uk, recast(connected))

The graph I got is attached. As you can see, the names are overwritten in the legend area. Do you suggest any other command to make this output complete?

[Roman Mostazir]

You should, by forum rules (see FAQ section for rules for posting), provide extraction of your data as example using -dataex-. We can't see any graph (also see the graph uploading rules) attched.

[Andrew Musau]

The legend will be hard to read with 15+ items and you are likely to suffer from the spaghetti problem, see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs...urnalCode=stja. Stata will automatically choose 15 colors on your behalf. If you want more, use xtline for the first 15 countries and add the rest using the -addplot()- option, specifying your colors. For an overview of the available colors, see http://repec.sowi.unibe.ch/stata/pal...g-started.html.