I would like to have a table description underneath the title and above the table itself. In addition, I want the description to be as width as the table itself. I know that the description part is frequently asked over the web, but I didn't manage to find an answer on the width so far. With the help of Jörg Weber his tutorials (See: 1 2 and 3) I came up with the following code in which I want to place the \figtext part in between the title and table:
\newcommand{\sym}[1]{\rlap{#1}}% Thanks to David Carlisle
\let\estinput=\input% define a new input command so that we can still flatten the document
\newcommand{\estwide}[3]{
\vspace{.75ex}{
\begin{tabular*}
{\textwidth}{@{\hskip\tabcolsep\extracolsep\fill}l*{#2}{#3}}
\toprule
\estinput{#1}
\bottomrule
\addlinespace[.75ex]
\end{tabular*}
}
}
\newcommand{\estauto}[3]{
\vspace{.75ex}{
\begin{tabular}{l*{#2}{#3}}
\toprule
\estinput{#1}
\bottomrule
\addlinespace[.75ex]
\end{tabular}
}
}
% Allow line breaks with \\ in specialcells
\newcommand{\specialcell}[2][c]{%
\begin{tabular}[#1]{@{}c@{}}#2\end{tabular}}
% *****************************************************************
% Custom subcaptions
% *****************************************************************
% Note/Source/Text after Tables
\newcommand{\figtext}[1]{
\vspace{-1.9ex}
\captionsetup{justification=justified,font=footnotesize}
\caption*{\hspace{6pt}\hangindent=1.5em #1}
}
\usepackage{threeparttable}% Alternative for Notes below table
% Note/Source/Text after Tables
\newcommand{\Figtext}[1]{%
\begin{tablenotes}[para,flushleft]
%\hspace{6pt}
%\hangindent=1.75em
#1
\end{tablenotes}
}
\begin{document}
...
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{Descriptive statistics per REIT}
\estauto{C:/Users/.../Panel_Constituents.tex}{6}{r}
\Figtext{\small{All values depict the averages per REIT over the whole analyzed period. Values for Assets, Debt, Equity and Market Capitalization are reported in thousand US.}}
\label{Descriptives}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
...
\end{document}
& Assets& Debt& Equity& MarketCap& Leverage& Return\\
\midrule
mean & 2,884,654& 1,443,272& 1,226,602& 2,169,579& 0.4753& 3.17\\
min & 8,142& 0& -1,787,348& 1,910& 0.0000& -8.31\\
max & 25,324,830& 17,978,696& 9,999,590& 32,474,382& 1.1650& 31.46\\
sd & 3,679,338& 2,163,937& 1,443,727& 3,809,827& 0.1712& 2.89\\
This leads to the following table:
Furthermore, the vertical space between the lines is now much wider than in my other tables for which I use the table and tabular environment. Is there a way to solve this as well? If i'm being unclear or something, sorry for that, I'm pretty new to all of this…
Edit: I managed to remove the extra vertical spacing in the table by removing a part in the Stata code, more specifically by removing the -gaps- option from esttab.
Edit 2: I don't know exactly how the \estauto command works (that's why I basically copied it), but inside the panel_constituents.tex file is the code shown at the bottom.
Best Answer
Some improvements with
siunitx
, and a description using a simple\multicolumn
: