Pie chart move percentages outside the chart

[Aleksej Stevanovic]

Hi

I am making a pie chart with percentages, however would like to move percentages outside the chart, how can I do that?

. graph pie eggfrys, over(agegroup) plabel(_all percent)

Any tips? Also how can you constrain to to 1 decimal place?

Cheers

[Andrew Musau]

See the -gap()- suboption in

help graph pie

sysuse census, clear
set scheme s1color
gr pie pop, over(region) plabel(_all percent, gap(22))

Res.:

[Aleksej Stevanovic]

See the -gap()- suboption in

help graph pie

sysuse census, clear
set scheme s1color
gr pie pop, over(region) plabel(_all percent, gap(22))

Res.:
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Perfect that works thanks!

[Nick Cox]

An alternative which many people find clearer is a bar chart. Here I use the data example of Andrew Musau and show one way to get a horizontal bar chart.

Note that showing percents makes a numeric y axis redundant. And we can lose the legend too given direct labelling.

sysuse census, clear
set scheme stcolor

* ssc install catplot 
catplot region [fw=pop], percent var1opts(sort(1) descending) ///
blabel(bar, format(%3.1f)) ysc(off) subtitle(% of total population 1980)