How to create a line graph of categorical variable (x-axis) against observations?

[Ajay Joshi]

Hi,

How do I create a graph with multiple lines of different categorical variables, against the observations for each category.

For example, I have two variables that are measured on the same scale; FathOcc and MothOcc and I want to create a line graph with two lines representing each variable and its plotted against the number of observations. So like if category 1 has 1000 obs for FathOcc and 3000 for MothOcc it will plot it with observations on y-axis and the cat variables on x axis.

Any help would be appreciated greatly.

[Andrew Musau]

clear
set seed 04042022
set obs 5
gen cat=_n
gen obs= runiformint(0, 3000)
expand 2, g(which)
replace obs = 2000+ obs if which
*START HERE
xtset which cat
xtline obs, overlay scheme(s1mono) plot2opts(lp(dash)) ///
leg(order(1 "Fath OCC" 2 "Moth OCC")) ytitle(No. of observations) ///
xtitle("Category")

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