Dear Stata-Listers,

I am trying to define income quartiles and then create dummies (for each quartile).
With the help of the program statsmat I have stored the values for the borders of the quartiles in a small [1,3]matrix.

But based on this step, how can I construct dummies, i.e. how can I make Stata compare my income variable to the value in a particular cell of this matrix ??

( it is the first time I do such a thing and apologize for the simplicity of my problem)

Yours sincerely,

Justina



Dipl.Vw. Justina A.V. Fischer,
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