--- [email protected] wrote:
> I want me to create a "liberal" variable and a "conservative"
> variable by isolating the people who score in the top 25th
> percentile in a composite personal freedoms variable and the bottom
> 25th percentile in a capitalism variable, using various questions
> from NES.
>
> One person told me to use
>
> gen liberal = 1 if capitalism< pctx & personal > pctx
> recode liberal .=0
>
> where the x after pct (percentage) would be 75%
>
> However, the pct command is not a function.
>
> Do you know how I would get the result I wanted in stata?
One way is shown in the example below:
*-------------- begin example --------------
sysuse nlsw88, clear
sum tenure, detail
local top25 = r(p75)
sum wage, detail
local bottom25 = r(p25)
gen liberal = tenure >`top25' & wage < `bottom25' /*
*/ if !missing(tenure,wage)
*-------------- end example ----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see:
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
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