Hello,

I am trying to find the best Stata command to export descriptive information into an excel table...but I'm having trouble. I obtained the -desctable- package but when I run even the example tables from the -desctable- help file, I receive errors about an "invalid name". I am able to open an exported excel file despite this error but it shows only the variable names (no values)...I attached a screenshot. I'm not sure what is going wrong. Any suggestions?

My Data: I am examining immigrant student's age-at-arrival in the US (variable code: schaaa) and their college-going outcomes (variable code: clg4). I started by trying out the -desctable- example code from the help file but I cannot get it to work. I also tried the -desctable- command with my own variables and I have the same issue as with the example code, where I get an excel file with only the variable names, no values.

Desctable Syntax: desctable i.clg4 i.stusex if subpop11==1, filename("tabletjes") group(schaaa) stats(count)

My end goal: is to export a table that will look something like this (I normally use many "tab" commands to get this information but I want to create one table with one command if possible):
US born (%)
(count)		 Pre-Sch Arrival Elem.Sch Arrival Mid.Sch Arrival High Sch.Arrival Total (count)
Enrolled in 4yr college 37%
6,836 (count)		 51%
253 (count)		 41%
201 (count)		 37%
65 (count)		 32%
29 (count)		 7,384
Female 50%
9,548 (count)		 55%
288 (count)		 49%
255 (count)		 49%
96 (count)		 49%
54 (count)		 ...etc.
…etc.
Is -desctable- the appropriate command to use? Is there another command I should try?

Thank you so much for your time!