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RE: st: Dispersion of workplace years of education


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Dispersion of workplace years of education
Date   Mon, 15 May 2006 18:01:03 +0100

The mean (absolute) deviation (from the mean)
is also coded officially as -egen-'s -mdev()- 
function. 

The mean deviation is, NB, not much robust (resistant)
than the standard deviation, as it is mean-based. 
So, if you are playing with the idea of robustness, 
do not stop there: 

more robust yet is the median (absolute)
deviation (from the median), coded officially
as -egen-'s -mad()- function. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Austin Nichols
 
> peter harper:
> One measure of dispersion of years of education by workplace would be
> . egen sde=sd(educ), by(workplace)
> but if you want the mean absolute difference (AD), you can code:
> . egen ej=mean(educ), by(workplace)
> . gen ad=abs(educ-ej)
> . egen ei=mean(ad), by(workplace)
> for example.
 
> On 5/15/06, peter harper <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I am working on a cross-section dataset, with different 
> firms and different individuals. How would one generate a 
> variable which would provide a dispersion of workplace years 
> of education: absolute mean diff. across workers based on 
> mean worker years of education, say, Ei.
> >
> > I already have a variable for mean workplace years of 
> education called Ej: which is based on percentage of the 
> workforce in each of the k occupations times average years of 
> education for that occupation from worker respondents.

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