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[email protected]
Sent: 28 January 2004 14:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: summary statistics and re-using results
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)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
xtile qinc= income, nq(4)
ta qinc, ge(q)
Vars q1-q4 are the dummy vbles
Stephen
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Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <[email protected]>
Institute for Social and Economic Research
University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K.
Tel: +44 1206 873374. Fax: +44 1206 873151.
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk
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