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Re: st: Group-mean equality test


From   lreine ycenna <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Group-mean equality test
Date   Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:21:01 +0100

by the way, I'm meant to test the signficance for the changes in means
from period 1 and period2, period2 and period 3..etc.
I'm using stata11.
Thanks in advance.

On 10 August 2011 16:14, lreine ycenna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am looking for an easier way to calculate the mean values for each
> of my variables for different time horizons (e.g. variable x from
> 1985-1990, 1991-1996..etc) and at the same time test the signficance
> (t-stats) for the changes between the means for these periods within
> each variable itself. I manage to go from egen meanedu= mean(edu) if
> year < 1991 & year > 1979 & country==GBR. and the same for the next 5
> year period..etc. Though this only gives me the mean values for the
> time periods wanted, how do I then test the significance for the
> changes using ttest?
>
>
> year          code          edu
> 1973    GBR     0.6096253
> 1974    GBR     0.5443353
> 1975    GBR     0.5181908
> 1976    GBR     0.3762168
> 1977    GBR     0.5183734
> 1978    GBR     0.3920778
> 1979    GBR     0.4526944
> 1980    GBR     0.4694474
> 1981    GBR     0.3979259
> 1982    GBR     0.3916153
> 1983    GBR     0.2517771
> 1984    GBR     0.2545344
> 1985    GBR     0.2207009
> 1986    GBR     0.1595718
> 1987    GBR     0.30558
> 1988    GBR     0.2499627
> 1989    GBR     0.4576487
> 1990    GBR     0.5781643
> 1991    GBR     0.5855764
> 1992    GBR     0.4679879
> 1993    GBR     0.3789743
> 1994    GBR     0.6381156
> 1995    GBR     0.6055152
> 1996    GBR     0.4644643
> 1997    GBR     0.195214
> 1998    GBR     0.2751569
> 1999    GBR     0.4539562
> 2000    GBR     0.46502
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