table numbering not in order

Question

I am somewhat irritated about the numbering of tables. Unfortunately i dont have a MWE, i doubt the "error" will be seen in a short example (this is a thesis...). Also when moving things around the error will probably disappear on its own... still i'd rather know how to avoid it.

On to the issue, in the List Of Tables I have:

1. ... p.10
5. ... p. 52
2. ... p. 53
3. ... p. 54
4. ... p. 55

The List is actually correct in sorting according to page numbers. What irritates me is that the Table numbering is NOT distributed accordingly.

actually the Table numbering is in the order in which they appear in the tex document. Of course floats float, so why is the table numbering not adjusted?

I've read about \usepackage{fixltx2e} which fixes some similar errors - no luck. Also the flafter package doesnt seem to change anything. Admittedly i'm using a wild mix of longtable, sidewaystable, etc

Here is a MWE, well its rather long actually.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc} %for cyrillic support
\usepackage[russian,english]{babel}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{scrextend}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{psfrag}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.eps,.png,.jpg,.mps}
\usepackage{everyshi}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\mathsurround 1.5pt

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
  \noindent\makebox[0.2em][r]{\@makefnmark}#1}
\makeatother

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\@seccntformat}[1]{%
 \csname the#1\endcsname.
}
\makeatother

\renewcommand{\cftsubsecindent}{1.5em}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Tables}
\newpage
\onehalfspacing

\section{Sec}
\blindtext
\section{Sec}
\blindtext

{
\def\legend{\multicolumn{6}{l}{\footnotesize Source:}\normalsize}

\begin{table}[ht!]\centering \caption{Means \label{meancompare}}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c c }\hline\hline
\textbf{} & \textbf{All} & \textbf{asd} & \textbf{def} & \textbf{fgg} & \textbf{ccc}\\
\textbf{} &\text{Obs: 8038} & \text{Obs: 6590} & \text{Obs: 1014} & \text{Obs: 328} & \text{Obs: 106}\\\hline
Age & 40.515 & 40.299 & 41.560 & 40.650 & 44.028\\
HHsize & 5.308 & 5.2434 & 5.669 & 5.45 & 5.472\\
\legend
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
}

\blindtext

\section{Appendix}


\begin{sidewaystable}[htbp]\centering\small
 \caption{Estimation Results Model 1
\label{tabresult regress1}}
\begin{tabular}{l r @{} l c r @{} l c r @{} l c}
\hline\hline
test  &  0.096&***  & (0.020) &  0.103&l  & (0.020) &  0.102&*  & (0.020)\\
\end{tabular}
\end{sidewaystable}


\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
 \caption{Estimation results}
\label{tabresult regress}
\begin{tabular}{l r @{} l c r @{} l c}
\hline\hline
test  &  0.096&*  & (0.020)\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}



\begin{sidewaystable}[htbp]
\centering\small
 \caption{considered}
 \begin{tabular}{l|r r|r r|r r| r}
Total  & 5.729 & 71.27\% & 1.353 & 16.83\% & 956 & 11.89\% & 8.038\\
\end{tabular}
\end{sidewaystable}


{\footnotesize
\begin{longtable}{ p{3cm} p{5cm} r r r r}
\caption{Description and Summary of Variables}\\
\hline\hline
\textbf{Dependent Variable} & \textbf{Definition} & \textbf{Mean} & \textbf{SD} & \textbf{Min} & \textbf{Max}\\\hline\endfirsthead
\caption[]{(continued)}\\\hline\hline\textbf{Independent Variable} & \textbf{Definition} & \textbf{Mean} & \textbf{SD} & \textbf{Min} & \textbf{Max}\\\hline\endhead
\hline \multicolumn{5}{l}{continued on next page}\endfoot
\hline \multicolumn{5}{l}{Source:}\endlastfoot

i100 & avbascadf & 6.748 & 2.209 & 0 & 10\\
\quad\\
\textbf{Independent Variables} \\
\cline{2-6}\\

test & 1 if test, 0 if otherwise      &0.532 & 0.499 & 0 & 1\\
\end{longtable}
}

\end{document}

Answer 1

You are mixing non-floating tables (longtable) with floating tables and this can lead to wrong numbers. Beside \clearpage you could try \Floatbarrier from the placeins package to prevent that floats go behind a non-float.

Theortically it should be also possible to reset the numbering with automatical labels and comparision of the \pageref but someone would have to write the code first.