The Stata tabulate command works well with categorical variables and some continuous variables.
Many continuous variables have too many discrete values for the frequency distribution to be useful.
In these situations, a frequency distribution with class intervals may be more useful. There is an OAC developed program called clstab which will break a continuous into groups. By default clstab will create 10 groups but the user can specify any number of groups. Here is how you can install clstab.ado and thus, the clstab command on your computer over the Internet. . This example has 200 subjects and 11 variables. .