st: assigning calculated values to other groups (was: Data problem again)

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 07:36 14-11-2003, Lok Wong wrote:
> I have "area,education,gender,wage"in my dataset...Now I want to calculate 
> the mean and GINI coefficient of only male wage by area and 
> education...and assign these values to females in the same area-education 
> group..How could I do that?

First, let me point out that you might learn something from the collection 
of FAQs on
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/

In a quick scan, I think that this one might be of interest to you 
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/weighted.html but ofcourse thare may 
be other as well.

Apart from that, your questions sounds like the following approach to me:

egen group=(area education)
levels group
foreach x of local group  {
        summ wage if sex=="male" [aw=weight]
        replace wage = r(mean)
}


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