dear all,
my question s the following.
I want to create a new variable including the means for some groups
(strata) of the population.
For instance, assume my strata are year, gender, education.
Using egen I can compute the average of some outcome variable, for
instance wage, using the following:
bysort year gender education: egen average=mean(wage)
However, using egen I cannot use any types of weights. I would like to
use weights (weights with average 1). Do you know how can I introduce
weights in a easy way? Probably it is very easy, but I do not know the
command.
I would like also to compute some quantile of the distribution, like
the 10th quantile, the median, the 90th percentile, etc.
Also in this case, I can use egen
bysort year gender education: egen p90=pctile(wage), p(90)
However, also in this case it is not possible to use weights, the
consider the weighted distribution.
Someone knows how to do all that?
thanks
Paolo
PS I have also used collapse, but also in this case it is not possible
to use weights for means or for quantiles
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