EXERCISE 3 - ANSWER

Which of the racial groups makes up the largest proportion of urban residents?

Africans make up the largest proportion of urban residents, as the account for over 55% of all urban residents. One possible approach to obtain this answer is to use the tabulate command with a qualifier. By entering the following into STATA:

tab race if rural == 0

This command produces the following table in STATA,

         19 |
:population |
      group |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   01-afric |       1128       55.24       55.24
   02-colou |        388       19.00       74.24
   03-india |        119        5.83       80.07
   04-white |        407       19.93      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |       2042      100.00

Using the tabulate command we produce a frequency distribution of the race variable, although by adding a qualifier to this command we are able to restrict the distribution to urban residents. From the table we can see that Africans make up the largest percentage of the urban population.