Adding percentage symbol (%) into esttab table of descriptive statistics

[Pablo Baldor]

Hi all,

I am using esttab to generate a table of descriptive statistics in latex format in Stata 16:

code:

estpost tab recipient_grant D_batx
eststo Table15

esttab Table15 using "$results/tables/descriptives/grant_recipient.tex", replace ///
  cells("b(fmt(%13.0f)) pct(fmt(%13.2f))") nonumber ///
nomtitle noobs label ///
collab("Freq." "Percent")

I would like to add the percentage symbol (%) in the pct descriptive statistic.

I have tried the following, but it does not work:

Code:

fmt(%9.2f\%%)

What is the correct way of doing it?

Thank you all in advance!

[Andrew Musau]

estout is from SSC (FAQ Advice #12). Does not sound like a good idea as the column labels would be redundant. I don't like duplicating information - and you could argue on the dismerits of having many percentage signs hanging around in the document. Anyway, provide a reproducible example (see the referenced FAQ Advice for details on how to do that).