[Tex/LaTex] tabularx syntax

tabularx

First time using tabularx to create tables, my code is below: (which turns out to be very wrong!)

\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{\textbf{Description of Regression Variables and Data Sources} \\ This table presents the variable names, definition and data source of the explanatory variables used in Equation~\ref{determinants}. Refer to Table~\ref{tab:sovereignabbreviation} for the abbreviations of the 10 EA sovereigns. Variables 1 to 7 are the local factors and variables 8 to 12 are the regional factors.}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{} >{\itshape}lX @{} >{\itshape}lX @{} >{\itshape}lX @{}}\toprule

\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Variable}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Description}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Data Source}} \\ \midrule
1 &        Average probability of default (PoD)          &  Bootstrapped sovereign PoD & Own calculation\\
2 & Standard deviation of PoD            & The standard deviation of the sovereign bootstrapped PoDs computed at each point in time & Own calculation \\
3 & Stock market returns           & Daily stock market returns of the main stock market indices of each sovereign & Datastream \\
4 & Volatility of stock market returns          & Volatility of main stock market returns of each sovereign with a rolling window of 6 months & Datastream\\
5 & Total reserves to debt ratio         & Total reserves excluding gold/government debt & Bloomberg\\
6 & GDP          & Natural log of GDP & Bloomberg \\
7 & Debt to GDP        & Government debt/GDP & Bloomberg \\
8 & Average correlation between changes in CDS Spreads         & Average pairwise correlation with a rolling window of 1 year & Own calculation \\
9 & Standard deviation of changes in CDS spread correlation           & Standard deviation of the average correlation between changes in CDS Spreads computed at each point in time & Own calculation\\
10 & Trade flows          & Sum of imports and exports/GDP & Bloomberg\\
11 & Regional implied volatility          & VSTOXX Index & Datastream\\
12 & Term spread        & Difference between 10-year and the 3-month EA AAA-bond yields & Datastream \\\bottomrule


\end{tabularx}%
\label{variables}
\end{table}%

I wish to create a table that looks like this: (Doesn't necessarily need the grid lines)

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How can I do so?

Best Answer

Please always post complete documents showing all packages used.

You had fragile commands in the caption, which I avoided by supplying a short caption for the list of tables, and in the tabularx you had specified far more columns than your data used.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption[Description of Regression Variables and Data Sources]{Description of Regression Variables and Data Sources\\
This table presents the variable names, definition and data source of the explanatory variables used in Equation~\ref{determinants}. Refer to Table~\ref{tab:sovereignabbreviation} for the abbreviations of the 10 EA sovereigns. Variables 1 to 7 are the local factors and variables 8 to 12 are the regional factors.}

\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}l>{\raggedright}X>{\raggedright}Xl@{}}\toprule

\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Variable}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Description}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Data Source}} \\ \midrule
1 &        Average probability of default (PoD)          &  Bootstrapped sovereign PoD & Own calculation\\
2 & Standard deviation of PoD            & The standard deviation of the sovereign bootstrapped PoDs computed at each point in time & Own calculation \\
3 & Stock market returns           & Daily stock market returns of the main stock market indices of each sovereign & Datastream \\
4 & Volatility of stock market returns          & Volatility of main stock market returns of each sovereign with a rolling window of 6 months & Datastream\\
5 & Total reserves to debt ratio         & Total reserves excluding gold/government debt & Bloomberg\\
6 & GDP          & Natural log of GDP & Bloomberg \\
7 & Debt to GDP        & Government debt/GDP & Bloomberg \\
8 & Average correlation between changes in CDS Spreads         & Average pairwise correlation with a rolling window of 1 year & Own calculation \\
9 & Standard deviation of changes in CDS spread correlation           & Standard deviation of the average correlation between changes in CDS Spreads computed at each point in time & Own calculation\\
10 & Trade flows          & Sum of imports and exports/GDP & Bloomberg\\
11 & Regional implied volatility          & VSTOXX Index & Datastream\\
12 & Term spread        & Difference between 10-year and the 3-month EA AAA-bond yields & Datastream \\\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}%
\label{variables}
\end{table}%

\end{document}

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\documentclass[10pt,notitlepage]{article}%
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
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\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}Y@{}}\hline
 {\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}|Y|Y|Y|@{}}\hline
    \href{foo/index.htm}{A}
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item item 1
      \item item 2
    \end{enumerate}& 
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 \end{tabularx}}

\end{tabularx}
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This is per the documentation. I found it by doing a search on nest in the documentation.

You should probably make a couple changes though. Using \textwidth within the inner tabularx is most likely going to result in columns being too wide. Instead use \linewidth. Here is a modified nested tabularx construction:

\documentclass[10pt,notitlepage]{article}%
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lY@{}}\hline
 Hello &
 {\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}|Y|Y|Y|@{}}\hline
    \href{foo/index.htm}{A}
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item item 1 \lipsum[1]
      \item item 2
    \end{enumerate}
    & 
    \href{foo/index.htm}{B}

     \lipsum[2]
    & 
    \href{foo/index.htm}{C}

    3:\lipsum[3] \\\hline
 \end{tabularx}}
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Alignment in tabularx environment

Don't use tabularx on numeric data:-)

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l *{6}{D..{3.1}}}
\toprule
 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{first} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{second} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{third} \\
\multicolumn{1}{c}{data set} & 
\multicolumn{1}{c}{foo} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{bar} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{foo} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{bar} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{foo} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{bar} \\
\midrule
d1 & 28.4 & 4.4 & 25.9 & 8.9 & -3.7 & 33.3 \\
d2 & 2.8 & 3.7 & 5.1 & 16.3 & 47.0 & 0.1 \\
d3 & 32.1 & 4.2 & 31.5 & 4.0 & 23.0 & 3.3 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

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