--- Nikolaos Pandis wrote
> I a continuous variable (age) with a range from 15-86 and around 1500
> observations. How could I convert it into an ordinal variable with equal
> number of observations per group, given that I would like to have around
> 15 groups.
egen catage = cut(age), group(15)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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