st: Re: Dispersion of workplace years of education

["R.E. De Hoyos" <redeho@hotmail.com>]

Peter,

You can try:

bys firm: egen dispEdu = mean(abs(Edu_firm_level - Edu_ind_level))

Best,
Rafa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter harper" <pharper11@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: st: Dispersion of workplace years of education



> Dear Statalist
>
> Clarification of my question on dispersion of workplace years of 
> education: The dispersion measure is the average of absolute differences 
> between own education (across random sample of workers) and mean workplace 
> education.
>
> 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 Ei. The dispersion measure is the average of 
> absolute differences between own education, eij (across the random sample 
> of workers) and mean workplace education, Ej.
>
> Sigma (this is the greek letter for sum)|(Ej - eij)|/nj
>
> where eij = workers years of education, i = worker and j = firm and Ej is 
> given below.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
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