Interpretation of the margins plot with categorical variables

[Galenda Nagudi]

Hello every one, Iam having trouble interpreting a margins plot and the margins output as well whiile doing latent class analysis. All my variable are categorical in nature. Below is my margins out put and my margins plot

margins
Warning: prediction constant over observations.
Warning: prediction constant over observations.
Warning: prediction constant over observations.
Warning: prediction constant over observations.
Warning: prediction constant over observations.

Predictive margins Number of obs = 1,254
Model VCE : OIM

1._predict : Predicted mean (any transactional sex), using class probabilities, predict(mu outcome(tsany))
2._predict : Predicted mean (Alcohol abuse problem), using class probabilities, predict(mu outcome(alcoprob))
3._predict : Predicted mean (any drug use), using class probabilities, predict(mu outcome(druguse))
4._predict : Predicted mean (Has woman been pregnant, man impregnated a woman), using class p, predict(mu outcome(anypreg))
5._predict : Predicted mean (any casual sex ), using class probabilities, predict(mu outcome(anycas))

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| Delta-method
| Margin Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
_predict |
1 | .2376449 .0126081 18.85 0.000 .2129336 .2623562
2 | .0326911 .0050216 6.51 0.000 .0228488 .0425333
3 | .065391 .0069811 9.37 0.000 .0517083 .0790737
4 | .2225622 .0124044 17.94 0.000 .1982501 .2468743
5 | .1819183 .0108973 16.69 0.000 .1605599 .2032766
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. marginsplot


Unfortunately am unable to show the graph since am unable to paste for whatever reason i dont know why it cant paste onto here. tnhough the graph connects the above given values to each other. My question is what do those jointed lines mean?

Thanks in advance.

[William Lisowski]

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[Galenda Nagudi]

Thank you for the clarity William. I was able to post my other question on the right forum and got a response.