Hello Statalist-ers,

I have a dataset below that I would like to graph - can someone please give me some ideas on whats the best way to plot this information. I want to show the reasons to immigrate has been changing over time. So year of arrival on the X axis and a plot of the reasons?

Also, should I use Excel or State for this particular graph?


Thank you!!!


Year of | Reason to Immigrate
Arrival | Marriage Other School Work | Total
-----------+--------------------------------------------+----------
1975 | 0 0 0 1 | 1
1977 | 1 0 0 0 | 1
1980 | 2 0 2 2 | 6
1981 | 1 0 0 0 | 1
1982 | 0 1 3 2 | 6
1983 | 0 0 1 2 | 3
1984 | 0 0 1 1 | 2
1985 | 1 1 2 2 | 6
1986 | 2 1 0 1 | 4
1987 | 1 0 3 5 | 9
1988 | 2 1 5 1 | 9
1989 | 4 1 3 5 | 13
1990 | 3 1 18 14 | 36
1991 | 2 0 3 3 | 8
1992 | 1 2 2 3 | 8
1993 | 0 0 3 6 | 9
1994 | 0 0 10 9 | 19
1995 | 1 0 10 6 | 17
1996 | 1 0 9 2 | 12
1997 | 3 1 11 4 | 19
1998 | 2 1 6 5 | 14
1999 | 2 0 12 5 | 19
2000 | 6 1 49 28 | 84
2001 | 2 3 13 13 | 31
2002 | 2 0 20 12 | 34
2003 | 0 0 10 15 | 25
2004 | 3 2 14 12 | 31
2005 | 4 0 19 13 | 36
2006 | 2 1 17 8 | 28
2007 | 0 0 27 12 | 39
2008 | 3 1 35 21 | 60
2009 | 4 0 22 10 | 36
2010 | 10 1 52 51 | 114
2011 | 1 0 13 14 | 28
2012 | 5 0 29 27 | 61
2013 | 1 0 11 18 | 30
2014 | 0 0 30 27 | 57
2015 | 2 0 14 23 | 39
2016 | 4 0 11 17 | 32
2017 | 0 0 3 3 | 6
-----------+--------------------------------------------+----------
Total | 78 19 493 403 | 993