st: re: panel data mgmt: dividing into quartiles for each year

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

webuse grunfeld,clear
qui forv i=1935/1954 {
	egen quartile`i' = cut(mvalue) if year==`i', group(4)
	replace quartile`i'=quartile`i'+1
	}
su quartile*


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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