grahamimac
commented
6 years ago Good idea Matt. Let's talk about the totals only option for a future release. I've added this example and the grade/level of study options available, and included a discussion of the 99 code to instruct people that this means totals only for these variables.
If we get feedback that this isn't enough and a separate totals only options is needed, then we can discuss what that looks like based on the feedback.
mchingos
educationdata using "college ipeds grad-rates", sub(race=99 sex=99) clear
This could be a good example to include because it shows how you can get graduation rates for everyone rather than the detailed breakdowns (which really slow down performance, which is unnecessary if you don't want that level of detail).
Suggesting this in part because it's not obvious from the dataset name that data are broken down by race and sex. i wonder if we should somehow be more consistent with some of the other endpoints.
Another idea is to add a "totalsonly" option that would suppress breakdowns for any endpoint (this would obviously require some coding specific to each endpoint on the back end). Something to think about down the road.