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Re: st: Calculating the Medians among group categories


From   "Marcella Sapun" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Calculating the Medians among group categories
Date   Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:01:00 -0500

Thank for your response..

You, Austin and Alan have been very helpful. Thanks.
   
MS.

>>> Clive Nicholas <[email protected]> 1/29/2007 9:52 PM
>>>
Marcella Sapun:

> I need to get the median rents for a group of renters living in
> 2-bedroom occupied housing units. I don't have the actual raw data
set
> to derive the medians. But I have a table with the following
information
> on the following Renter-Occupied categories:
>
> Categories:                            Estimate total#
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2-bedrooms:                          15,223,372
> with cash rent:                      14,449,016
> < $200                                   335,924
> $200 to $299                         385,018
> $300 to $499                         1,849,604
> $500 to $749                         4,898,457
> $750 to $999                         3,803,812
>> $1000                                3,176,201
> no cash rent                          774,356
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Does someone have any ideas to compute the median rent (i.e cash
rent
> and no cash rent) among all the groups. Can I do this in STATA?

If you had the data then you could simply

. tabstat y, by(x) stats(p50)

Hope that helps.

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