I’m trying to figure out how to create “nice” panel charts in excel, where I’m currently attempting to do so in Stata. (See for example Figure 2.) I can easily do the individual excel chart, but my investigation online into making this a 2X2 set seems to involve using pivot tables, and even then I’m not quite convinced it will work out as I want it to. I wanted to reach out in the event that this is something you or others have done before – Excel trend figures side by side for comparison purposes…also known to some as panel charts. This allows the reader to view trend lines across different groupings over the same scale to make helpful comparisons.

The data are available here.

Here is the Excel file Ira suggested.

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This is a scatter of the actual change in state tax revenue, 2007-2009, per number of federal returns, against a hypothetical measure that we call revenue exposure, which is defined as the weighted sum of the change in AGI by income slice times the 2007 effective tax burden on that income slice. We are trying to graphically show how tight is the relationship between actual tax change and exposure; states way off the regression line include a few mineral states (ND, WY), states that offset their tax exposure by raising their tax rates (NY), or states with a lot of tax exporting (tourism, etc), that took a big hit during the recession.

Data (csv format)

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As for context, here is the abridged lead-in text to the Figure:
“To get a sense of the overall impact, Figure 1 plots the a(i) ratio [unit cost of product a of variety i] against its share in total imports within the sample for 2004. The most distorted goods tend to be a smaller share of imports. However, there are a number of goods that are relatively important with significant distortion.”

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