Re: st: xtile and "by" question

[Edgard Alfonso Polanco Aguilar <e-polanc@uniandes.edu.co>]

Thank you very much. Very usefull

Edgard

Clive Nicholas escribi�:
> On 08/05/07, Edgard Alfonso Polanco Aguilar <e-polanc@uniandes.edu.co> 
> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm working with a database which consists on income by month and
> > region. I need to classify the income by percentiles by city and month
> > because there's a wide dispersion on income levels across cities, to the
> > point that the highest income in one is on the median of another. I know
> > the command of choice for this task is xtile, but Stata doesn't allow me
> > to use it with "by" like in "by city date: xtile var=income nq(10)". I'm
> > working in Stata 9 SE for Windows.
> -findit xtile2-
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