sumup = summarize by group

sumup allows to summarize your data by groups defined by one or more variable

sysuse nlsw88.dta, clear
sumup hours, by(race) 

sumup hours, by(union married) 

• Use the detailed option to return detailed statistics

sumup hours, by(industry) detail

• Use the statistics option to return a specific set of statistics (including any percentile)

  sumup hours, by(industry) statistics(p80)

sumup is ten times faster than table, contents() or tabstat. Another difference is that the result returned by sumup can be saved as a dataset with the option replace or save(...).

Installation

sumup is now available on SSC.

ssc install sumup

To install the latest version on Github

• with Stata13+

  et install sumup, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthieugomez/sumup/master/")
  

• with Stata 12 or older, download the zipfiles of the repositories and run in Stata the following commands:

  et install sumup, from("SomeFolder")