st: Idenity of entitiy at pctile value

[Rod Hunter <info@hunarch.com.au>]

A very rudimentary question:

I want to identify the entity that corresponds with the 90th percentile 
for area.

I have performed _pctile, and generated a new variable based on the 
result of _pctile. I have then used tabstat to identify the entity 
corresponding with the p90 for area. That's fine. I get an answer, 
including the value of p90 for area (902720)

I also tried rtab, with the following results:

...
49.	909860	1	0.20	90.34
50.	908485	1	0.20	90.14
51.	906000	1	0.20	89.94
52.	902720	1	0.20	89.74
53.	901632	1	0.20	89.54
...

The tabstat result of 902720 appears to be discrepant with the result of 
rtab.

I would be grateful if someone could explain.

Many thanks

Rod Hunter
Hunarch Consulting



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