[Tex/LaTex] Alignment in table

horizontal alignmenttables

I'm creating a table but I'm not getting the correct alignment in the last row of the table. It's a multirow and muticolumn example. Of course, I'm putting some fictitious information and data in the table 🙂 but my original table has the same format. I'm putting a minimal code below. There are two problems:

  1. I can't get the numbers 12 and 1000 in the last column aligned in the center position as the other numbers are. Now I have simple small numbers as 12 and 1000 but the alignment becomes worse if I have bigger numbers and with decimals.

  2. A second problem is setting the 10 and 3 in the "sex ratio between second and first value" rows to be aligned in the middle between "male" and "female".

    \documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[below]{placeins}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{\label{tab:freqcompa} Testing for table}

\begin{tabular}{@{}lcccc@{}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{2}{2cm}{Case\tnote{2}}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Number 
of dogs} \\
\cmidrule(r){2-5}
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Dogs of type 1} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{
Very very bad Dogs of type 2\tnote{1}} \\
\midrule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{male} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{female}
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{male} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{female}\\
$\omega_a= 100$  & $1$ & $2$ & $4$ & $12$ \\[2mm]
\cmidrule(r){1-1}
Sex ratio \\[-1.5mm]
between second \\[-1.5mm]
and first value & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$2$}  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$3$} \\[2.3mm]
\midrule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{male} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{female}
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{male} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{female}\\
$\omega_b= 200$ & $1$ & $60$ & $100$ & $1000$ \\[2mm]
\cmidrule(r){1-1}
Sex ratio \\[-1.5mm]
between second \\[-1.5mm]
and first value & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$60$}  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$10$} \\[2.3mm]

\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\begin{tablenotes}
\item[1]\textit{considering all stray dogs.}
\item[2]\textit{considering two possible cases}
\end{tablenotes}

\end{threeparttable}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Any help will be most appreciated…

Best Answer

To explain the alignment behavior: by this line

\begin{tabular}{@{}lcccc@{}}

you format the last column by c@{}, removing the small space which would follow. But here

... & \multicolumn{1}{c}{female}\\

you would get this default space. That's the reason why the numbers and the word 'female' aren't aligned correctly. Change to

... & \multicolumn{1}{c@{}}{female}\\

and you will notice, that 'female', 12 and 1000 will become horizontally centered.

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