Stata tabout Continuous and Categorical By Groups - stata

sysuse nlsw88, clear
tabout age south race collgrad over(union) using table2.txt
How can it be possible to do tabout in Stata when you have continuous (such as age) and categorical (such as south and race and collgrad) variables?

please explain your desired outcome, you could just run the following
tabout age south race collgrad union using table2.txt

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Tabulate relative frequencies in Stata

I am trying to tabulate frequencies for a variable divided in two groups. That is, I would like to see how much a variable takes value "Yes" divided by both region and sex. Now, this is easy to do in Stata using "tab" and option row, but I have trouble exporting it. To make it clear, I am able to build the table with absolute frequencies in this way:
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eststo formalno: estpost tab regionwb_c female if fin22a==0
eststo formalt: estpost tab regionwb_c female
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This, put in my latex code, produces this relatively nice table:table1
Now what I would like to do is to reproduce the exact same table, but to have the relative and not absolute frequencies there. Now normally to my understanding if you want the relative frequencies you can have
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but if you try to combine this with estpost it does not work. Are there any hints? I tried working it out with tabout, but all i was able to produce is this:
tabout regionwb_c female using trial.tex, replace percent style(tex) c(mean fin22a) sum
Which gives this:table2
Where, as you can see, I am pretty lost. I am sorry if the question sounds silly but I struggled finding results online or on the tabout manual. I hope somebody can help me.
I have not worked with tabout before, but maybe one way to work around it could be to just program new variables containing the male and female relative frequencies by regionwb_c using the egen command for example (like in this link enter link description here. Then you could just pass these relative frequencies variables in your table.
Could that maybe help you? Good Luck!

Graph weighted averages in Stata

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Stata estpost esttab: Generate table with mean of variable split by year and group

I want to create a table in Stata with the estout package to show the mean of a variable split by 2 groups (year and binary indicator) in an efficient way.
I found a solution, which is to split the main variable cash_at into 2 groups by hand through the generation of new variables, e.g. cash_at1 and cash_at2. Then, I can generate summary statistics with tabstat and get output with esttab.
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However, I'd prefer a horizontal table (e.g. year on the x axis) and a way to do it without splitting the groups by hand - is there a way to do so?
My preference in these cases is for year to be in rows and the statistic (e.g. mean) in the columns, but if you want to do it the other way around, there should be no problem.
For a table like the one you want it suffices to have the binary variable you already mention (which I name flag) and appropriate labeling. You can use the built-in table command:
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set obs 40
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On the other hand, it's not clear what you mean by "splitting groups by hand". You show no code for this operation, but as long as it's general enough for your purposes (and practical) I think you should allow for it. The code might not be as elegant as you wish but if it's doing what it's supposed to, I think it's alright. For example:
clear all
set more off
set seed 8642
set obs 40
* Create example data
egen year = seq(), from(1985) to (2005) block(4)
gen cash = floor(runiform()*500)
gen flag = round(runiform())
* Data management
gen cash0 = cash if flag == 0
gen cash1 = cash if flag == 1
* Table
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can be used for a table like the one you give in your original post. It's true you have two extra lines and variables, but they may be harmless. I agree with the idea that in general, efficiency is something you worry about once your program is behaving appropriately; unless of course, the lack of it prevents you from reaching that state.